vibration with 7200 RP M. drive

[john 86]

I have just upgraded T42 Hard Drive from the 5400 rpm 40 GB standard drive to an HHitaci 7200 rpm 100 gigabyte drive.
The speed difference is certainly noticeable, but I can feel a slightvibration through the track pad. Is this normal with a 7200 RPM Drive?
No apparent increase in noise or hard disk temperature so far.
Cheers John

[BillMorrow]

should not be any significant vibration..

i have run many hard drives externally and while there is some small vibration you should not be readily able to feel it when its in a thinkpad..

so i guess the question is how MUCH vibration do you feel.. ?

[john 86]

Thanks for the reply
The vibration is only slight, if I put my finger on the left side of the ThinkPad I can't feel it. It is however detectable on the trackpad and it can be felt more strongly on the right-hand side. It definitely wasn't present with the original drive.
Cheers John

[powerant]

Thanks for the reply
The vibration is only slight, if I put my finger on the left side of the ThinkPad I can't feel it. It is however detectable on the trackpad and it can be felt more strongly on the right-hand side. It definitely wasn't present with the original drive.
Cheers John

maybe you deed to re-fix it again and make sure that the hd is prefectly fixed.....

[Kyocera]

Sounds like and accident waiting to happen. I would think you would have no trouble returning it for that reason alone.

[pae77]

I can feel a very very slight vibration on the right side of my T42 coming from the 7200 rpm 60 gig drive. It is not enough to be a bother at all.

[christopher_wolf]

I just checked up with a 7200RPM HDD on a laptop,; there is a tiny amount of vibration..but not much at all; and it should not be felt across to the other side of the palmrest and trackpad. Just to be on the safe side, I would take a peek at the drive with some SMART Tools; NHC or ActiveSMART, etc. Just to make sure it doesnn't affect the drive in any bad ways. The spindle on a HDD should *NOT* ever, ever, ever vibrate, this would be a slow and painful death to the entire HDD.

[gab]

I also have the vibration, which is slight to moderate in intensity across the palmrest and touchpad. I have tried reseating the 7K60 drive and have run harddrive diagnostics, which show that the drive is operating normally.

I contacted IBM before the changeover to Lenovo and they said my 3-year warranty does not cover this type of problem. So . . . please let me know if anyone has any other suggestions. The vibration is very annoying.

[Domain]

I had a 40 gig (7200 RPM) drive in my desktop. It made tons of vibration noise, even causing the case to hum. My solution: sticking a rubber grip from a pen under the drive carriageto absorb.

Not a ThinkPad solution, but the drive is still running strong.

[scrible88]

have you checked to make sure all of the screws and such are tight? A screw in the plastic body panels of the notebook could even be causing increased vibration due to the internal drive.

If that doesn't work make small rubber bushings to put inbetween the drive and the caddy. If that doesn't help, return the drive.

I'm guessing it is something other than the hard drive itself, because I have had a ton of desktop case's that have rattled like hell when the hard drive is spinning due to the motherboard/pci cards/case panels that are not tightened down enough.