High pitched sound emitting from brand new HDD?

Part 2 of my HDD woes.
I received my repaired laptop with a brand new HDD today on my MBP 4,1. This time around the brand is Toshiba, my last one was Hitachi and the one before that, I can't really remember. But the point is, with the last two hard drives I've had I've NEVER heard anything like this.
The hard drive is emitting an extremely loud, and annoying high pitch sound. At first, I thought it was my laptop when it was plugged in - unplugged it and lo and behold it's the hard drive. I put the computer to sleep, the sounds stops. When I open my laptop, that is how you can for sure tell it's the drive because the sound starts up with the hard drive. I actually have a headache from it, it is SO awful.
I'm extremely upset, this is my third hard drive in less than three years. I just wanted to know if anyone else experiences this, because I don't think this sound is ok at all. Is this typical of Toshiba HDD (250 GB)? I'm really hoping to read that someone else had this problem and that they replaced the drive for them. It's getting to be absolutely ridiculous, especially being in a professional program where I rely on my laptop everyday.
Advice would be wonderful, I'm sure this will mean I need to go back to the Apple Store again tomorrow.

Yep, called Apple Support this morning and I spoke with the Senior Advisor and he was very disappointed for me and was extremely apologetic that I will have to take the laptop back and get a new HDD. He assured me that they will give me a new HDD - again. Just frustrating because I already took the time to (2.5 hours!) to transfer all of my data from Time Machine to the new HDD.

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