Andrew is fine, I don't really care to hide behind my handle. When I say the drive is loud, I don't mean that it's a screamer like some drives can be, it gets loud but it is by no means annoying. If you have a fan that runs 4.5k rpms and up you probably won't even know the drive is there. I don't think that it was caused by unbalanced media, every single test that I used it for let it get decently loud. I have a pretty sensetive ears and it didn't bother me considerably. I was also looking for at least one problem with the drive, and that was pretty much the only one that I could come up with.

-Andrew