Yes you are correct it was acoustics rather than power that caused the function to be withdrawn,
I still don't think spamming the CEO is a good idea, it won't achieve anything, but if that's what you want to do then I guess you will be off on your crusade anyway, you seem like a reasonably clever man, so think about it a bit more, there is a much more effective way of resolving it,
Anyway after a think about this whole thing is it not logical if the heads park in a mechanical metal based unit you will always hear something, and also when they park a note of it is recorded, as this seems to be the way the HDD is evolving it could well be a feature of every HDD soon, even WD have the issue, ok they've given people a choice to turn it off, but what if by turning it off you shorten the life of the drive, I feel this is simply something new that people aren't used to and will quite justifyably worry about unless they are assured it's not a fault, you also need to remember WD place quite a cost premium of their drives over Seagate, so for drives that return they have the back up of all the extra wonga they milked ppl for when they bought, something Seagate doesn't have, Hitachi is the same if not worse than WD for pricing.
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DOING ANYTHING I HAVE SUGGESTED IS AT YOUR OWN RISK, NEITHER I NOR SEAGATE TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY, IT'S YOUR CHOICE TO DO WHAT YOU FEEL IS BEST FOR YOU
