And the Goddamn thing sounds like a jet turbine. Looks like I got the crappy DVD drive as a replacement unit. My old unit was considerably quieter.

MS can be a real pigfucker at times. No pun intended. 

Just break it and send it back to them, I had a friend who broke 2 PSP's cos Sony refused to take them back with deadpixels.

That's so lame of them.. :s

Yeah same with my friends unit. Meh at least you know the fans are working :)

I will probably end up doing that. I'll wait until the rumored chipset to fix the RRoD is out and tested, though.

nice they got it back to you but shame on them for using the bad hardware

Which drive did you get? I've had samsung and Hitachi and both are fine.

Luckily I have a kick-ass surround system to drown it out. If I was using only my TV speakers, it would drive me insane.

perhaps you should sell it off and get one of the new models and hopefully that way you avoid getting the RRoD again with in the same year.

Dunno. When I get home, I'll check.

At least the 360 is back. After being stuck with only a PS3 for nearly three weeks, I realized how much I prefer the 360 controller and its games.