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Loreno10

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Hi,

After installing Yosemite it turned out that there is a clicking sound almost all the time - I think it's from HDD, but I'm not sure. On Windows 8.1 I don't hear it, when I launch Yosemite it just appears and I don't know if it's safe to use Yosemite with that. Do you know wha it might be and if it's possible to get rid of it?
 
Loreno10 said:
Hi,

After installing Yosemite it turned out that there is a clicking sound almost all the time - I think it's from HDD, but I'm not sure. On Windows 8.1 I don't hear it, when I launch Yosemite it just appears and I don't know if it's safe to use Yosemite with that. Do you know wha it might be and if it's possible to get rid of it?
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You need to first determine what device is making the noise.
 
RehabMan said:
You need to first determine what device is making the noise.
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I don't know how, but I'll try to find out what's making that sound and I'll write here.
 
on my testmac hdd (hitachi 500gb 7200upm) i have the same clicking sound only with yosemite. its 100 percent from the hdd. i tested the hdd with drive genius 3 but no errors detected.
its a loud clicking sound.
 
olliromeo said:
on my testmac hdd (hitachi 500gb 7200upm) i have the same clicking sound only with yosemite. its 100 percent from the hdd. i tested the hdd with drive genius 3 but no errors detected.
its a loud clicking sound.
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It is probably the drive parking/unparking the head. Some HDDs are just clicky that way.

If you want silence, get an SSD.
 
RehabMan said:
It is probably the drive parking/unparking the head. Some HDDs are just clicky that way.

If you want silence, get an SSD.
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On Windows this issue is not present, so it has to be sth with Yosemite. I think that Mavericks didn't have this problem too. I hope it won't cause any damage to my HDD.
 
Loreno10 said:
On Windows this issue is not present, so it has to be sth with Yosemite. I think that Mavericks didn't have this problem too. I hope it won't cause any damage to my HDD.
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OS X is not Windows. It may have different behavior regarding sleeping the HDD.
 
zoltankr said:
I think this will fix your issue: http://mckinlay.net.nz/hdapm/
I used it with great success on both hitachi 750gb and wd scorpio black 750gb. Good luck!
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Exactly this. I've been manually setting APM for my hard drives for years now (since the big "Ubuntu-is-killing-my-HDD"-gate) and hdapm is a great tool for doing this on Macs. Highly recommended.
 
zoltankr said:
I think this will fix your issue: http://mckinlay.net.nz/hdapm/
I used it with great success on both hitachi 750gb and wd scorpio black 750gb. Good luck!
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Thanks, I'll try that as soon as I launch Yosemite. For now I'll be using Windows mainly, because on Yosemite my wi-fi card does not work so it's not really useful for now.

If it works I'll update this thread.
 
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