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[Mr ChriZ]

It's always kind of irritated me that when listening
to CD's, watching DVD's etc my Drive is going at it's full 52x CD Speed, or 16x DVD speed
making a noise like an incoming helicopter!
Given that I'm intending to take an hour to listen to an album or
2 hours to watch a DVD I've found it kind of frustrating that the drive
spins up to speeds which could copy across all the data in under five minutes!

Anyhow I was considering buying a purpose built 'silent' drive for the purpose
of watching things, but instead I came across CD-Bremse, which locks
the drive on the fly to a speed of your choosing.
It's fantastic.  Ideally I'd love to see MC do this on it's own,
but untill that day occurs, check out the following link 
Currently listening to a CD and I can't hear the drive at all.
(and my computers pretty quiet!)
http://www.cd-bremse.de/

[JaredH]

I use AnyDVD as a region-free driver. The program has a built in drive-speed control. It only has three speeds:

Fast and Noisy
Medium
Slow and Quiet

Rather limited, but gets the job done. I keep mine on "Slow and Quiet.

[Mr ChriZ]

Another thing I've realised using this utility.
If your ripping to APE and probably most
other formats it can be an incredibly processor intensive
process.  If your playing music in the background
and don't have a computer with 6 or more processors
running at 10ghz or more it may  struggle
doing the two at the same time.
Most of the time I'm not wanting the CD burnt in
as short as time possible, after all I've usually
bought the CD it's not going to disappear after I've
burnt it.
If you throttle the speed of the CD drive the number
of bytes going to the encoder per second drops significantly
meaning the encoders doing far less work
leaving the processor twiddling it's thumbs for the
most part.  Kinda obvious really but I never thought
about it until ripping while Bremse was running.
Media Center can actually set the speed to rip
from the drive at, but being able to change it
on the fly through bremse is useful.