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apparently the high pitched whine coming from my main system wasn't a fan. it was my 1 tb hard drive dying. Good News is, I'm getting it replaced since its warranty is until 2012, bad news is that other than my music collection, most of the files on the drive are toast.  I'm annoyed, but since this is the NEWEST component in the primary rig, its probably me getting the upward slope of the bell curve.

The other drive is making an odd noise too, so i'll need to plan for that failing too, but prolly needing to somehow work out how to back that up on another box... and on a non existant tech budget.