Sound of a bad drive?

[stephanpark]

Sorry about the free file share, this forum doesn't have its own file hosting.

Ultrashare's ads are fairly tame so I used them to share this.

This is the sound of a DVD that isn't perfectly balanced. It happens to be Goddard's Masculine Feminine.
http://ultrashare.net/hosting/sf/d27d1076b6

This is the sound of XP SP2 disc from Microsoft themselves. Disc is a bit larger...and I mean micrometer larger. The mic was amped a bit but the scraping sound is fairly accurate, insert and eject though are a bit exaggerated. You can here the brief moment when the disc hit cruise speed that it make no noise at all.
http://ultrashare.net/hosting/dl/e77688d0f4

I hope to exchange the drive soon.

[nxman]

Thats not normal.

[Zeus]

no, not normal. get a replacement.