16,000RPM Hard Disk Drive (exaggerated)

[JacobRocks12]

I was running a Symantec Norton full-system scan. I make the computer so it doesn't sleep or dim. Maybe about 2 hours and 2.8 million items scanned (maybe 2 million), the hard drive goes up to at least 6,000 RPM. I was so scared something was going to happen, I canceled the scan and shut down the computer. I don't know what happened, maybe it scanned a 2GB file or something that was writing data to the disk while it was scanning it. I don't know. Can anybody tell me what happened??!?!?!?!

PS: Sorry for posting so much, in just having so many problems and errors.

[BC_Programmer]

Hard drives do not change their spindle speed while running. That sounds like perhaps a CPU or system fan speedign up to keep the system cool.

[Geek-9pm]

The OP should provide more info.
More likely the speed changes is from the CD/DVD drive.
Modern hard drives maintain speed very closely. If the hard drive did accelerate, it would damage something and fail very badly.