Hard drive head parking issue?

[Dano]

I know from the sticky FAQ that samsung spinpoints and a few hitachi drives are affected but my system also seems to be constantly clicking one of my drives, they are all western digital, does anybody know if they are also affected?

Otherwise I'm probably looking at imminent death of a drive :/

 

[Pulseammo]

Have you got suspend hard drives enabled in your power options? This'd cause the heads to park and waken when the drive is needed.

Start Button -> type "Power Options" Enter -> click Change Plan Settings (For the plan you have selected) -> click Change advanced power settings -> Expand Hard Disk and change to "Turn off hard disks after: Never"

 

[hyperseven]

Google 'wdidle'

 

[Dano]

Will look at both of those later thanks, oddly enough not long after posting this it finally shut up lol, maybe it was indexing or something.