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For 3 months now I'm the owner of a 24" Intel iMac. After 2 months of use it occasionally started producing a rattling noise coming from the rear left side. I am prety sure this appears when HDD read/wrte operations take place. This noise is audiable on occasions, but almost every time I use the computer for a longer period. Once the disk utility even reported a smart status fail for the hard drive. I've had an external hard drive fail longer ago on another computer but the sound was a bit different (clicking). Has anyone experinced this before? Should I suspect some fan bearings or the hard drive?