>My mom had problems with 2 of her WD Caviar drives, and I'm not sure if the
>problem will be present in and 8.4 Gig drive from WD. The problem in her
>first drive that she heard a humming from the hard drive, and then it
shorted
>out her motherboard.  She got a new one and it started to hum and make
weird
>noises too, only this time the reason it was replaced was because of the


    As far as the noisy WD drives go, most WD drives feature a
'wear-leveling' system that constantly moves the heads in small increments
to cause even wear. For some drives, WD has firmware upgrades that reduce
the noise.

-Peter Ramins

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