Is this a hard-drive sound...impending doom?!

For those who know what they're listening to, what is this sound?
http://enete.org/drumstuff/buzzing.mp3
Is it the sound of a hard drive going bad? It only happens when I change the orientation of the computer (tilt it).
G4Dual1.25MDD, PowerMac8600/498mHzG3 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 3 years old

I just had mine replaced at an Apple service centre, cost approximately 140 USD.
Once installed, I realised that my previous HDD had been working at its limits for a while. The new drive just makes the quiet clicking sound I remember from when I first got the PB, instead of having the fans going half the time and other little groans and rattles. The S.MA.R.T. status always showed up as verified, though.

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Got one for ya. I just updated my G4 to 10.4.7 and now when I boot:
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2) Hard drive sounds like a teen driving a Ferrari to prom in first gear.
- that's it. No screen, mouse, keyboard, start-up noise ( I so miss that wonderful "BONG!" noise, now. ) Nothing.
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You wrote: "Hard drive sounds like a teen driving a Ferrari to prom in first gear."Sounds like it has taken a hard failure. I suggest you begin troubleshooting using Step 1 of the the Procedure specified in my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ.
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