Funny how we can even make a discussion out of disk drive loading noises

It takes a special kind of people, for sure.

The drive in my A500 was pretty bad also. 'Chainsaw' comes to mind.

To stay on topic: my dream Amiga, back when I owned an A1200, was always the A4000, with a ridiculous amount of fast RAM and a CD-ROM. The main reason for wanting such was Frontier - it ran a bit choppy on the A1200 (though, much better than when I played it on the A500), so I wanted to see what it was like to play it on a fast comp.