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/