Lacie D2 Extreme Hard Drive Options

[camarao]

I've just bought this Lacie D2 Extreme 250gb and I find it noisy or perhaps it's not in good conditions.
It is connected to the PC via USB 1. ( I will connect it to a Powerbook next week )
I can hear a kind of fan ( or maybe is the drive rotating. Is it suposed to be always rotating ? )which makes an high pitch noise .
And I can hear some strange noises like some metal thing is scratching the case. This happens sometimes (as an example,this happens when I select all the folders in the drive and then right-click in properties ) . Is this normal ? Everywhere I read it says this drive is silent but mine is not.

[justd]

Hi Camarao,
my opinion and advice is, never buy lacie. To expensive and at least much to noisy. It's much cheaper to prepare a own external, maybe with a newer icecube on firewire or, for example, I bought a One Technologies 250 GB for 170.- € on Firewire 800. It's really silent and works as good as possible. I also have lacie in my office and the sound drives me nearly crazy, so if you have still the possiblity to give it back, do it!.
8)
deejay