Cd drive making a strange noise

recently I have noticed that my cd drive on my powerbook has been making a very loud annoying noise when it speeds up to mount or finalize a disc
is it on "death row"????? should I replace it??????

Hi, t. If the drive is still performing all its functions satisfactorily, then you obviously don't have to replace it. But if the noise is unacceptably annoying, replacement is certainly an option.
Any optical drive makes a lot more noise when an unbalanced disc is spinning in it. An unlabeled blank disc certainly shouldn't be unbalanced, but some poorly-made ones can be, and any disc that has a user-applied label is likely to be unbalanced. Running a drive with unbalanced discs puts a lot of extra wear on the spindle bearing. Once that bearing is worn, the drive will be noisy even when it's spinning a perfectly balanced disc.
There's no room at all inside a Powerbook for any sound-damping material, and the metal case certainly does nothing to damp noise. So when anything in a Tibook gets noisy, whether it's the fans, hard drive or optical drive, it can be very annoying. It's up to you to decide how much noise you can stand before replacing your drive.

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