Superdrive noise

I've never heard a noiseless optical drive in a laptop. Is this noiser than others you've used before?

It was also probably a slower tray loading drive, now you have a faster slot loading drive. I guess the only way you'll know for sure is to compare it to another MBP, maybe take a trip to an Apple store or somewhere else that has them on display.

I'm getting the same fan-like noise from my MBP. It's not normal. How did you get yours to stop making the noise.

thanks
Rick

mines become REALLY loud all of a sudden.
its also make an occasional sound of a 'clipping' or something.
not sounding very healthy 😟

the vibrations which it produces cant be that good for the rest of the 'notebook'

Did you call Apple? Did they have a solution?

I had a PowerBook G4 immediately prior to purchasing my MBP, and I remember it making the same noise. They're not the same product, but as with yours things were bad enough that when the volume was down low, that fan noise was louder than whatever was playing. It wasn't that bad when the system was new, but seemed to develop once the drive had received physical damage. In fact, the drive unseated itself Thursday and it was more cost efficient to buy an MBP than to fix it. Does your computer show any signs of physical damage? Mine did, and the internal components suffered as well as the casing.

My MBP doesn't make the fan noise like the PB did, just the unholy clicks and whirring that all of the MacBook SuperDrives seem to make when spinning up. Of course, it's also brand new. How old is your MBP, and has it been damaged? My PB started doing things before it was a year old, so it would be interesting to know if SuperDrives in general degrade quickly or if it's purely a matter of their 'health.'

My recommendation would be to schedule an appointment with the Genius Bar at your local Apple store, if you have one, because the noise is NOT normal. It's a lot better to take your machine in so the techs can actually hear/see what's going on. It's harder to deal with the issue over the phone. If calling AppleCare is your only choice, then do so, but they'll probably recommend letting someone have a look at it in person.

Quick note, if you take it in, make sure you bring some discs that you know cause the fan noise with you. Sounds silly, I know, especially when all of them do it, but I got chewed out by one particularly 'charming' technician for neglecting to do this.

i havnt sorted this yet, because ....

1. te symptoms are sporadic, and ...
2. this is my second unit [a replacement for the first which went through 5 weeks of repairs]

i simply cant afford to be without it again for another week or two.

thanks for the advice

I'm getting the same fan-like noise, which I can certainly deal with. The problem, however, is that some discs (in particular Office Mac 2004) make a scraping noise when they spin in the drive. Definitely not good!

Yeah i get the same scraping and vibrating. This is rediculous. Also i havn't been able to burn an audio cd do to a "medium write error". Anybody got any suggestions? I tried various brands of CD-r and am still getting the same message.

I have a MacBook Pro, which recently began experiencing what sounds like fan noise. I noticed the noise first after I had taken the MacBook to class with me one day. I am pretty sure I had not left it in Sleep mode, but when I got back home, there was a substantial, constant increased fan noise. It isn't related to the input of CDs or DVDs- the noise continues regardless.

Any ideas?

I went to the Apple Store and they replaced the optical drive and it is not nearly making the same amount of noise.

2 x G4 ibook's
1 x G4 Powerbook
1 x G5 Dual Powermac

and all of these computers can burn using my usual brand of cdr's /dvdr's.

all of these computers can read all of my cds without spitting some of them out, or making a hideous noise.


so .. is my macbook pro superdrive faulty? or am i going to be told by apple this is 'normal'?

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has an issue when the drives clicks quite loud after inserting a disc? Is there something wrong with the drive except for this issue, got the computer today from AppleStore so can refund it if it's an error that doesn't appear on all machines

//Adam