Strange clicking sound on MBA 1.8/64MB SSD

I got my MBA 1.8 / 64MB SSD today and it's great. The only really annoying thing is that after appx. one hour of usage a not very loud clicking sound started. It's a double click sound that repeats every 6 seconds. I tried to restart the MBA but the clicking sound remains. It seems to come from the right side of the MBA, near to the power switch.
Even though it's not very loud it gets very annoying since it is a repeating sound.
Does anybody know about this proble?

Hi everyone, this is my first post, yay! Anyways, I also am getting that weird clicking sound every few seconds and then it doesnt do it for a while. I have a 1.6/80 MBA and the clicking started last night. They occur one at a time at different time intervals, sometimes every 6 seconds, 15 seconds, I have even timed them over 2 minutes which is weird. I installed iStat Pro and the fan speed shows up fine, just under 2500RPM. I am guess its my harddrive...
On some occasions I have noticed while typing, I get a sudden lag followed by the click and it is all normal after that. Anyone having this issue on here? Thank you for any replies. I made a reservation for the genius bar, the sad part is that I just got this wonderful machine on Friday afternoon and today is Monday! Oh well, hopefully Apple can replace it for me.

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