OK, I thought you were crazy but I can hear the motor running now on the drive when it is not playing since it is still compressing the cd's I fed it over the weekend. Forunately for me the noise is drowned out by my beer meistr so it doesn't bother me.

I ripped about 250cd's in the past few days at 320kbps and 96kbps portable and last night I was using 69% of the 112GB capacity. This morning it was down to 64%. Does anyone have an idea about how long it'll take the thing to finish up with all of the audio compression?