Date: 2008-09-04 12:52 pm (UTC)
I bet it's a fan. A crappy hard drive would be constantly noisy, while fans can go from quiet to loud and back to quiet again. If your drive has S.M.A.R.T. functionality, find a S.M.A.R.T. utility and see what that says.
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