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<blockquote data-quote="jonnyd" data-source="post: 399927" data-attributes="member: 31029">The mounting screws in the Pro are silicon, IIRC. They don't actually 'screw' to anything except the hard disk, which you just plug in using a guide slot.But seriously, you should check out the guts of a Mac pro (or any mac in fact) - that's one of the things that I particularly like about them. The engineering and attention to detail is astonishing. Every wire immaculately routed, every part of the frame designed to fit together properly. I have a bunch of IBM fileservers in my office here, which in comparison to the Mac look like they were built in an episode of Junkyard wars. As a PC engineer you'll enjoy it.Gilesjuk - I don't recall what the original one was (the 160 that comes with the computer), but the other 3 are Seagate Barracudas.If it does it regardless of which drive you use, it is actually the drive? Could it be something like the sata cable, when attached to a drive, is resting/pushing against a cooling fan or something? I don't actually recall how they connect, as they're just plugin jobs, but is that possible?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jonnyd, post: 399927, member: 31029"] The mounting screws in the Pro are silicon, IIRC. They don't actually 'screw' to anything except the hard disk, which you just plug in using a guide slot. But seriously, you should check out the guts of a Mac pro (or any mac in fact) - that's one of the things that I particularly like about them. The engineering and attention to detail is astonishing. Every wire immaculately routed, every part of the frame designed to fit together properly. I have a bunch of IBM fileservers in my office here, which in comparison to the Mac look like they were built in an episode of Junkyard wars. As a PC engineer you'll enjoy it. Gilesjuk - I don't recall what the original one was (the 160 that comes with the computer), but the other 3 are Seagate Barracudas. If it does it regardless of which drive you use, it is actually the drive? Could it be something like the sata cable, when attached to a drive, is resting/pushing against a cooling fan or something? I don't actually recall how they connect, as they're just plugin jobs, but is that possible? [/QUOTE]

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