Samsung Spinwrite noisy seek?

[Rod Speed]

But you have said:
"When the drive is in the user's hands, the fee has either been paid
and the feature is there or it is not."

So assume interesting situation, when manufacturer elects
not to pay royalties (you brought up that idea). It would not
provide that "quiet" feature, right?

Wrong. The other possibility is that the drive manufacturer
can decide that whoever is claiming that royaltys must be
paid to them before a drive can have AAM is not legally
entitled to royaltys for AAM and can choose to not pay
royaltys and have AAM available anyway.

Then drive does not have "quiet" feature
and user cannot enable "quiet" feature.

That is just one of the 3 possibilitys.

 

[Arno Wagner]

But you have said:
"When the drive is in the user's hands, the fee has either been paid and the
feature is there or it is not."

So assume interesting situation, when manufacturer elects not to pay
royalties (you brought up that idea). It would not provide that "quiet"
feature, right? Then drive does not have "quiet" feature and user cannot
enable "quiet" feature.

Correct. But if the feature is there, the manufacturer can have it
set to "quiet" as default or "performance" as default and the user
can change the setting. All it measn is that a lound drive may or may
not have acoustic management and if it has, it is turned off in a way
the user can change. Did I say something else before?

Arno