27" iMac HDD spins up two times on startup

Hi,
the HDD of my 5 month old 27" iMac i7 audibly spins up two times when starting the machine - and is reproducible on every startup. It's like it looses power after the first spin-up, starts to spin down, and when the drive is nearly stopped - spins up again (and then boots flawlessly from then on). The iMac is currently at an authorized Apple service provider, who tells me that that's totally normal behavior for harddrives - and that's just plainly not true. Not one single iMac in the family and no PC i ever possessed over the last 20 years has EVER shown that kind of behavior...
What should i do? Call Apple again or go to a different service provider? It's kind of ridiculous to live with stuff like that after shelling out more than 2k euros!
ps: It's a 1TB drive, but i haven't written down the brand before giving the iMac to 'repair'...

One of my LaCie externals has this same defect. I fully agree with you it's clear it is faulty since I own many other LaCie of the same type and it's the only one that does it.
My faulty LaCie has never caused any other trouble apart from that, though.
Still, if for LaCie it is already quite questionable, for Apple there should be no question, at least if they still value their (so deserved) good reputation:
this is a faulty hard drive, that's it.

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Hello community,
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