Bizarre I've never had a drive stick or seize up. A few issues where it would just crap out and refuse to read properly but they all spun up fine. I've got a IBM 60GXP actually, I wonder if it'll die...

I'm sure at some point I've read the literature that drive manufacturers pump out and they all make a big deal of the fact that even with a power loss, the heads should park properly. They apparently can use the back EMF from the motor coils to force the heads to park. These are normal laptop drives though so the one in the Zen might be different.

I wish people that make drives would be more considerate and use a single screw type. It's annoying when ripping this stuff apart to have to rummage around for some miniscule Torx bit