External HD makes scraping sound when idle. How to disable it?

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Published on 2010-05-27T17:33:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 17:42 UTC
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My external hard disk often starts making an irritating scraping sound. It stops if I do something that causes disk activity on it. But then, after 3 minutes or so, it starts again. It's very annoying. Is there a way to disable it?

It's a Western Digital WD 10EAVS.

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