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When I shutdown Al on my laptop, my harddrive emits a loud "click" sound. Why is it occuring? - is it harmful to the drive?
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you sure its not the CD-ROM drive? My sony does the same thing, its the CD drive though, bringing its spindle to a halt...
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Depend on what you mean for loud.
Normaly on all hard drive when you shutdown the system the heads goes in a safe position. On laptos hd the sound is more loud due to the little dimension of the hd. Little hd are more noisy than bigger one.
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Ever tried another os on the laptop? I don't believe it is arch, but you should try out, maybe by a knoppix or amlug test.
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I've used Red hat and Windows... the click is AL specific. Its not the cdrom either. Imagine the click sound your hard drive make when read/writing, and amplify it.
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