There was a ST3144A that liberally screamed in loud
howling noise
when it went through it's death throes.
At a lab I once worked at, a Fuji 2284 (14") drive in the computer
room developed bad bearings and started screeching. We call
System Industries field service, they log into the disk control
unit remotely via a modem, check the error logs, and tell us
there's nothing wrong :-)
Tim.