I know exactly what you mean.. I hate modern CD drives, most of them sound like a hairdryer running on nitrous oxide....
My first CD was a Toshiba 4x SCSI, and it`s still in use in my A4000.. when I first installed it,it was so quiet I thought it was broken .. until I saw the LED on the front flashing away.
The 8x IDE I put in my PC didn`t last the year, it made so much noise, the damn thing just wouldn`t stop whizzing and buzzing, even when it wasn`t being accessed.. so I tried to fix it by punching it several times :-o
So I bought a 40x replacement, and it`s been getting noiser and noiser all the time..last week the whole PC was only seconds away from being thrown out of the window ( OK, so most of the fustration was down to the cruddy MS OS installed !)
Why can`t manufacturers just make well built, decent quality products instead of always trying to be the fastest or being riddled with "features" that no one really wants??
I`d rather have a silent 8x CD that lasts for ages rather than an noisey uberdrive that will be lucky to even outlive the warranty.
