DVDRW drive is L O U D ! !

This is a fairly new DVDRW made by LiteOn, model DH20A1H. It reads and writes perfectly, but occasionally it sounds like a jet taking off. I mean it gets REALLY loud. There's no grinding or clicking, no scary sounds. Just a loud whirring hum like a really loud CPU fan might sound like. Should we be worried about the drive maybe dying soon? I know some optical drives are louder than others, but this one is loud enough to be heard from an adjoining room....

 

Hi dlb! i have had this happen on my panasonic DVDRW and on the one at work which is a brand new DELL. Have you tried older discs? I think its something to do with the speed of whatever disc is written in i get it with some discs and also have noticed some make BUZZING sound which again i THINK is where the disc is made offset and spins out off balance maybe cheaper discs not quite sure!

 

I've got a couple of Lite-On drives some 2.5 years old and they were loud at full 48x speed out of the box when installing software but usually pretty quiet when watching a movie..

 

Now that you guys mention it, I burned and erased an older CDRW disc rated at 4x max and it was really quiet. But then I used a factory disc to install some software and that's when it got really loud. I guess that makes sense though, the faster it spins the louder it gets. But jeez.... it's
R E A L L Y freekin' loud!

 

If it's vibrating you can try screwing it into your case from both sides. A lot of times the noise is increased if the drive isn't fully secured.

 

I have tried all that before even with those little rubber grommit noide reducers you can but some dics just wobble so damn much it just dont work but the grommits ago!

 

I have a Pioneer DVR-111D and it's basically the same. Watching a movie/burning a 4X CD/DVD it's pretty well silent. Installing things (MS Office, something from my XP CD) it whirrs right up like a jet.