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Making your replaced Mac’s hard drive quieter

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I found that my iMac was really loud after I replaced the hard drive with a 1TB Western Digital Black drive (go figure).

I finally found a solution for adjusting the acoustic properties of the drive -

  • Boot your mac with Ubuntu 9.10 (or whatever LiveCD you like)
  • Open Terminal
  • run: sudo hdparm -M 128 /dev/sda (replace /dev/sda as needed)

Your computer will be quieter, and only slightly slower from now on!

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