On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:42:45 -0000, "Hamman" wrote:

High RPM SCSI disks sound like ****e when powering up, so i would assume
that they dont like it too much.

hamman

Depends on the drive. Earlier drives like the IBM Ultrastar 36Z15
tend to sound pretty crappy. Seagate's fluid dynamic bearing motors
like in the X15-36LP or more current 15K.3 are very quiet and very
nice to work with. While many 10k or 15k drive tend to exhibit a
temporary faint high pitched sound during power-up, my understanding
is the reliability issue has to do with wear related to the head
parking in the landing zone and not the motor per se.