New SL510/Win 7 with HD WD3200BEVT: crazy clicking / LOAD_CYCLE increase

I noticed on my new Win 7 win SL510 and Levono Power Manager 3.3, the HD has produced a noise clicking every few seconds. Given that this sound usually reflects the parking of heads HDs, I looked at its SMART status and it reported a crazy number of charge cycle of more than 6500 in 50 hours of power at the time. It is about 130 an hour of charge cycles. That the HD is specified for 600,000 charge cycles, I fear that the HD will reach its specified limit after about 6 months of regular use. Sounds - noises left aside - completely inaccetable for me. What is happening with the Lenovo Power Manager? I don't want to spoil my HD...

I found the cause of the problem. It seems that it is not for lack of Lenovos but Western Digital. The WD3200BEVT has a too aggressive idle timer value 4 s (!) in the bios of HDs. This means that if there is a service running, access to HD every 10 seconds, there to park the heads every 10 seconds!

In this case, the solution is a utility named WDIdle3:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?GroupId=609&SID=113&lang=en

Started from a startup disk, it can be used to set the WD timeout to a higher value. I put it at 30 and load cycles went :-)

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