Noisy optical drive

[LeKiD]

Hi guys, on my recent Mac Pro, the only thing I noticed that is annoying is the noisy optical drive. I haven't found a thread on this. Whenever I put a dvd player and it starts playing it, the thing goes full throttle. When I stop the dvd from the dvd player, the drives keeps spinning full speed.

Anyone else experiences that?

 

[LeKiD]

Actually, just tested the Zeitgeist movie in my drive and it's only that DVD that does all the spinning. My bad.

 

[UltraNEO*]

Sometimes, when a DVD is badly printed our drives work extra hard to track the content. I think it's kinda normal for the odd disc to cause the drive to make a racket. I think you need to be concerned when it's making lots of noise on all ya discs.

 

[supercooled]

Yes, I was installing rFactor off the DVD included from my Logitech G25 and it sounded like it was going to blow up! A few years back I was using a slot-loaded Pioneer DVD drive to read a disc that had a slight hairline crack; needless to say, that was the last time I used that drive or seen that disc in one piece again. I get anxiety attacks anytime I hear noise coming from the DVD drive.