Super Drive makes bad noise/is loud on initial load

Hey There,
Just got an MB with the super drive and i have noticed an extremely loud noise when you first load a cd/dvd. Anyone else get this? The media mounts fine and when the disc spins up, the drive is quite, but when you first load it, there are 2-3 loud cranks coming from the drive

Compare it to this...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305478
Mine makes loud noises as well, but I think that comes w/ the territory since it's such a skinny drive, and it's a slot-loader.

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