Incidentally, my current setup is a 40gb Fujitsu MHS2040AT as the primary drive and a 10gb Travelstar DJSA-210 as the secondary drive. I actually don't need the second drive (total free space on the player is over 23gb) and I'm thinking of removing it just for the noise and heat reduction.

So I guess my questions are:

1. Is there any web site that lists the audible output of laptop disk drives in a list?

2. Does anyone think that I could get a noticeable improvment in noise level if I replaced the Fujitsu with something quieter?

3. Do any of these laptop drives have "quiet operation" modes that can be set from the operating system? Does the kernel already try to do that anyhow?