New Hard Drive, is there a risk?

Hello,
I just replaced the hard drive in my 2009 Mac Book Pro. The stock hard drive had some kind of safety feature where if I moved the notebook suddenly, the drive would make a audible sound as it parked the drive head for safety reasons. Now with this new drive in my computer, I do not hear this sound at all. Does that mean that my new hard drive is less safe than the OEM one? I would rather have less risk than more since this hard drive is my primary computer. Still, I am not sure what I can do about this.
Thanks for any feedback!

SMS sensor, dont worry about it one bit.
dont shake your macbook like a baby rattle regardless, before or now with the new HD.
Head crash is harder to accomplish (a good thing) now than even a few years ago.
Always always have 2 copies OFF-computer of your vital data, regardless.
tomfromchicago wrote:
Does that mean that my new hard drive is less safe than the OEM one?
not really no.
There is NO OEM Apple HD, Apple never made HD , they always recently used Hitachi and Toshiba
there are only 4 HD makers on earth. None are Apple-specific, .......never was.

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