MacBook Air Hard Drive Clicking

[SuperstarVenom]

mines just done this. Can at least one person answer the several people that have asked what is this noise and whats causing it?

My HDD got replaced by Apple under apple care about a month ago as it made this noise then just froze on a blue screen when I tried to start it up after it crashed. Apple said it was the HDD. Now, it's doing the noise again once in a while. NOooooooo!

[BananaBean03]

my macbook white (2007) made a high pitched white noise, closing it didnt make it stop so i had to manually shut down

[daand12]

it's a really small harddisk drive it holds only 1,8 inch drives

[cheetawolf]

wait, that thing is thick as a hdd platter itself! how can you fit a read arm a case and a platter in an epicly thin thingy?!

*ps mac sux, dell is on :D*

[ALEKSANDAR989]

apple.............

[Turtov]

Apple purchases their hardware from other companies. There isn't really anything that makes it special other than the Apple branding.

The same thing would happen to, well, any other laptop user.

[chayut1992]

I have known that Apple uses Samsung's 1.8 inch HDD for Macbook Air.

[macindrew]

apple has an article on this

support.apple . com/kb/HT2159

i'm still a bit scared since my 1st gen macbook air started this about 2 months ago... so not sure, why it didn't do it for the first 8 months, but does now? hum...

[proudpraow]

My macbookair just had the same thing. What exactly it is? How do we know that it is not something wrong with my laptop?

[killdjsolo]

its actucally the hard drive clicking. You can take it in and exchange one

[inferno10]

My MacBook Air just did the same exact thing! What is it???

[benjyhxc]

my laptop is not a mac but i have just switched hard drives from a hitachi to a toshiba and it makes the same or similar sound very frequently, very strange.

[tombell12]

I thought MacBook Air's were too thin to contain hard drives?

[phoneunlisted]

The Air uses the same 80GB 1.8 inch hard drive that is in the 80GB iPod Classic.

[hildegueden]

Also I heard it .. and it is not a MBA's fart. What is it?

[UseTheMan999]

thing exact same thing just happened to me... what does it mean? :S

[minowar]

The sound comes from the speaker. Maybe the the hard drive makes some sort of resonance and the speaker replicates it.

[hotchiphead]

Mine does this too but rarely, how did you get it to happen often enough to record it on video?

[killdjsolo]

thats the 1st mba i had and does it randomly. My second also clicks but rarely plus not that loud.

[stmf69]

I have the clicking also. It's annoying

[natashu]

I had same problem with my Mac !