Loud superdrive

Hello,
I just bought a new Macbook (2.2 ghz processor, 2gb ram, 120 gb hardrive, superdrive and runs Leopard) yesterday.
I have noticed when watching a DVD, or listening to a CD, or basically inserting any cd (file storage, audio, program install) the drive is VERY loud....if you are mute the volume, you can hear it like crazy (what I think is the CD spinning?). Anyhow, point is the drive is loud and I have an old Ibook and a Hewlitt Packard PC and the drives are quite as a mouse when listening to CDs or whatever.
It's quite annoying. Normal? Problem?

Not sure whether Apple would consider this a 'bad' drive since it appears to be a somewhat common problem with these new pioneers. I'm having the same issue though and hopeful for some kind of resolution.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6509029

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Hi justaglo and welcome to the discussions.
Noisy optical drive operation is often due to poorly made CD's and DVD's . Discs which are the slightest bit out of round or out of balance are likely to produce a lot of noise.
The same discs are also likely to suffer from erratic burn and playback behaviour.
The slot loading Panasonic drives in many Macs are less tolerant of such things than many of the external, tray loading, drives.
My suggestion would be that you try a few different brands of discs and see which ones it likes best. Verbatim, TDK and Sony seem to work very reliably in mine. Memorex, and many of the cheap, generic, discs are much less happy. Some are so bad that they are only really of any use as drink coasters.
Assuming that Northwest WA is NW "Western Australia" one brand of "cheap" discs which does work well though, in my experience, are those sold through Australian Post Offices, under their own brand. Worth a go if you haven't already tried them!
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Apple Discussions!
Another help source (if you haven't already done so).
Go to your OS Help Menu. In the search field type cd
Click on all the troubleshooting topics & Support Articles that pertain to your issue.
You can also do the same in Disk Utility. Open same up.
At the bottom left of the window, click on the purple button w/the "?" in the middle.
This will bring up the Help Menu.
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Try a different brand. Top forum favorites
CDs
FUJI
TDK
Verbatim
DVDs
Maxell
Make sure the CDs are not dirty, smudged and/or scratched.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448 How to Handle and Clean CD and DVD Discs
Your drive may need cleaning. Cleaning kits can be purchased from any store that sells CD/DVDs.
It is recommended that you repair permissions & restart your computer after each burning session.
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Yes, a few months ago I noticed it making a lot of noise for 10-15 seconds after CDs finished ripping to iTunes, though I can't say for sure it wasn't doing that before. Within the last few days it's gotten so bad that the whole desk that the MBP is sitting is vibrating heavily... not normal, I assume. :/
This would be under warranty, right? (13" refurb MBP bought in Jan 2010)
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The question is... in the title !
How avoid the loud sound of superdrive at start up ?
It's quite boring, and I have never tried to avoid it, so if someone may help me...
I have a macbook alu (late 2008) :
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MB51.007D.B03
1.32f8

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1723
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The problem with discussions, is that it's hard to convey sounds. What I may interpret your description as could be totally different than what you mean.
But, I'll tell you that the CD-ROM / SuperDrive in all of my recent Macs have been very noisy.
I've had two iMac G5's with SuperDrives, a Mac Mini and iBook with Combo Drives, and I've also got an iMac G3 with CD-ROM, and have had several other Macs over the years.
On all of these systems, there is a very, very loud sound when the disks are spinning. But, you can tell that this is a spinning motion you are hearing. It's very loud, and very obnoxious. But, it's present on all my systems.
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But, it's hard telling from your description what you are hearing.
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I hope you can help; progressivelymy superdrive has stopped reading DVDS, it reads blank ones straight away withno issues but dvds, games, movies etc it doesn’t read anymore.
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