Hard Drive Data Sound

Hi I have an iBook indigo 366 MHz and a 10GB Hard Drive.
Well when using it i can hear the hard drive writing or reading or just spinning. Its not loud but when in a quite enough environment you can hear it. You can hear it with some noise too.
I have looked for Documentation to see if the computer had a fan because i have watched Apple Keynote's from the past and found out that the iMac G3 was Air Cooled as well as the G4 Cube.
I ask because i have a 500GB HDD and it seems to make less noise I think it is 7200 RPM. And i have a MacBook which does not make really any noise except the Fan. But Hard Drives years ago might have been noisier that the ones today Don't know.

Old hard drives are horrid. They're especcially bad noise-wise because they don't just spool and whirr, they click constantly, and I think that's what you were talking about. that constant "Whirrrr... Click click click scrape--- click".
I've heard of people swapping new drives that make operation much quieter, and even a few people who removed their hard drives and rebuilt the area for SSD using a couple specific adapters and a couple Compact Flash cards.

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All of the docs were perfectly organized in folders and subfolders a long time ago, and once that had been done, I deleted everything off of the MacBook itself. I never thought I'd have to move all of the docs to a PC, but alas, nothing ever goes the way we plan now does it?
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I just bought the new 15" 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro with the SD card slot, and I noticed that every time I move the machine vertically (i.e. upwards or downwards), I hear a hard drive clicking sound. Sounds like a single chirp... if anybody knows what I'm talking about. What's wrong with this, or is this natural?
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I think I have found our problem. We are not alone on this one. It actually concerns me after reading about this. Here is the link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1935
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My Powerbook G4 Seagate 100gb hard drive recently crashed. I am a little desperate. I have been calling many different ones and not sure which to choose from.
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I was told that based on the sound of the hard drive that the heads crashed and that the head is broken. It hasn't been opened or anything. When I heard the sound, it sounded like a very faint clicking, almost inaudible. No software will work cause my hard drive is not recognized by anything, even in target mode.
I have contacted DriveSavers (very, very expensive), Lazarus Data Recovery, DTI Data, OnTrack Data, and looked at many, many website pages.
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