Constant hard drive noise

I have been noticing lately more noise coming from my hard drive...at first i thought it was my fan being on all the time, but its coming from underneath the trackpad, which is where i have read the hard drive is. Its possible this is entirely normal and has been there from the start when i got my PB (june 05) but im not sure. Is this constant noise from under the trackpad normal?

John,
I'm having the same problem. I've been eyeballing my activity monitor for a while and I can't tell if there's anything out of the ordinary on there. The only thing that looks odd is that the kernel_task is using about 1GB of virtual memory.
My Activities Monitor, sorted by CPU usage can be seen here: http://agentlebossanova.net/images/activities.png
Anyway, the hard drive seems to be fine, permissions are fine, SMARTReporter (a diagnostic tool) says the hard drive is fine. I'm just worried that it's getting worn down by this CONSTANT spinning.

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