Superdrive Makes Intermittent Noises??

Hello everyone
I recently received a replacement powerbook G4 (thanks to our warranty), and they kindly upgraded me from the 1.5ghz to 1.67ghz with Superdrive.
Since I've had it, it seems that the Superdrive makes intermittent whirring/working noises without any discs in the drive. It's like a 2 second buzz with a light click at the end. It will also make occasional light "clicking" noises with input from a keyboard.
I was wondering if this was a "normal operating noise", or whether your power books don't do this. It's intermittent, like it was doing it earlier when I was writing, and now it stopped.... and here it goes again.
It's not super loud, but certainly noticeable. I'd just hate to put in another stupid service ticket after being without my last powerbook for 3 weeks.
The drive seems to be working normally, though it is quite a bit louder then the "combo drive" I've been used to.
Thanks for your help everyone!

It was the hard drive; This computer that was a replacement was a refurb and had major problems with it... it was returned for a full refund.

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