The Bios uses the speaker to warn you of serious errors during Post. There
is an index of Post code beeps to help you track down a problem. Removing
the speaker would be a mistake. As long as you speaker magnet has a couple
of inches clearance from the hard drive I wouldn't worry too much about it.
.......we are talking about the tiny little PC speaker ??

Of course you could just move the speaker or the hard drive to a different
location.

Mark
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>Very few people use the internal speaker that comes with a PC/PC Case
>anymore.  I would not worry about operation as much as installation when you
>may bump it a few times.  Unless you are using the speaker it is simply an
>ornament... Toss it!
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>I wish to install a second hard-drive, and the only place I have for it,
>in my minitower, is really close to the internal speaker.
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>Should I be bothered by the fact that the magnet of the speaker is one or
>two centimeters away from the hard-drive?