Hitachi Travelstar HD always spinning?

After following some advice from here, and reading many past threads, I installed a new Hitach Travelstar 7200rpm 100Gb HD into my Ti. The installation was a little fiddly but I got there in the end.
Since I installed it ive noticed a constant "spinning fan" noise coming from beneath the trackpad area, which is where the drive's located.
Is the constant "fan like" noise normal operation?
Everynow and then i'll hear louder "scratching" noises which from my understanding is normal HD operation, but the "fan like" noise concerns me.
Only I never noticed such a constant noise from my old 4400rpm drive.
Powerbook Ti 1Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I similarly recently installed a 60 GB Hitachi Travelstar 7200 rpm in my TiPB 867 replacing the original 40 GB 4200 rpm drive.
That spinning "fan like" noise you hear is normal, It is the drive itself. I had the noise with my 4200 drive and it took me quite a while to realise that the noise was not the fan at low speed. If the noise seems louder then it is because the drive is spinning much faster. When the fan(s) come on you will notice the noise difference. Actually I am now not sure of the speed advantage of 7200 v 4200/5400 because the fan(s) come on earlier than they used to, which is of course quite normal. I know the fans have no effect on the drive speed but it just seems to somewhat negate the speed increase when the fans come on earlier. And I suspect that the "average" home user can not really tell the difference between 5400 and 7200 rpm. Certainly more modern PBs than ours are better designed to handle higher speed drives.
The way to tell if the noise is your drive is to spin down the drive either thru the Energy Saver prefs or the Terminal commands without the PB going into deep sleep.
HTH
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