A150 Hard Disk Vibration through touchpad etc

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    redwald

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    Just bought an Aspire A150 with 160GB HD (Western Digital apparently). Got the fan & fan noise under control with Ralf Neumüller's excellent piece of freeware. However, although the HD is fairly quite it is transmitting a lot of vibration through the front top panel & touchpad. It's actually quite intense & disconcerting if you rest your fingers on the area for any length of time - which of course is what you do in normal use.

    I'd be very grateful to know if this is normal or alternatively a known occasional problem. I don't think there should be this much vibration, either from the HD in the first place or being tramsmitted to the top. I've a normal (bigger) laptop and a HD-based iPod, both obviously with physically small HDs neither of which do anything like this when they're are spinning.

    I'd be very grateful to know if this is normal or alternatively a known occasional problem; before I start complaining at the supplier ;-). Any similar experiences anyone?
     
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    I have seen this problem of hard drive vibration on a number of AAO.

    the vibration has always gone away when I change out the hard drive for Seagate, but I always find the screws backed out on the hard drive caddy, so I am not sure if it is loose screws or the brand of hard drive.
     
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    I have the 160GB WD scorpio blue hdd as well on my AAO, but I have no such problem.
     
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    Thanks guys for the feedback
     
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