Noisy ipod drive

if i rotate my ipod and turn it upside down as it's copying music/ starting to play a song the hard drive clicks like the heads are jumping, is this normal for a 30gig 5th gen ipod video? also the other day i unplugged it without disconnecting from the computer and the drive went nuts and it started bleeping is that normal too? the ipod is only a week old! i'm currently defraging the pod and i've ran chkdisk on it..

Dear all,
An iPod with a capacity of +4 Gb is working with a hard disk. The iPod has been designed to endure normal use, as might be expected.
Nevertheless it's a computer with a hard drive and a hard drive can ... or should I say ... will ... finally break.
Normally a drive can take severe damage, but once it gets to a certain point, the heads might crash into the surface.
What is causing this? A fall is most likely the cause when it comes to newer drives that crash.
Now it doesn't have to be the customer who is the one that dropped the disk, but it's possible that even in the factory the drive fell...
While falling the heads crash into the disk surface, making some kind of a microscopic crater. Every time the hard drives spins up, the heads move over ... and into ... this damaged area,
unfortunately touching the surface, and thus taking away minor pieces of the surface magnetic layer and causing this debris to flow into the disk area.
Once this gets to a serious problem, you hear the drive making 'ticking' sounds. Should you open the drive, you would see a scratch over the whole disk.
The heads have trouble getting over that scratch, but forced by the speed and the retying, they try to move over this area, causing more debris and so... it finally crashes.
So it's not because it's a new iPod that this is not possible. It's good that you brought it back to the store while still in warranty.
If the disk made strange sounds all the time, and you don't recognize the head ticking in it, then of course, it's probably something else...
Sincerely, Jean Loyens, Belgium

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