iPod making loud fan noise-scaring the $hit out of me
I haven't used my iPod in a few months and I just took it out again today and it is making a loud fan noise, almost louder then a fan in a desktop computer. I definitely don't remember it making such a noise. It played a song fine through iTunes but I'm not going to use it until I can verify that it's not breaking down. Just because it's 5 gigs doesn't mean I can afford to have it stop working, it was $400 and I hope it lasts a few more years.
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Most hard drives have internal fans
Ummm not really.
The hard drive itself does not have an internal fan. cooling is done via convection through metal where the hard drive is mounted and by passing air. In the ipods case the hard drive does not creat a lot of heat, so no fan or extra cooling is needed. The noise you hear is the hard drive, but not a fan. It sounds like the motor is wearing dowm.
You might have seen fans in external hard drive enclosers. They are there for cooling but are not part of the hard drive itself.