Airport Extreme constantly wakes attached external hard drive.

I have a Seagate 1.5 TB drive that I bought in February '09 connected to my 2 month old AExp. For the first two years I had the HDD I was connecting with FW800 to do backups. When I got the new router I figured I'd like to backup more transparently, so I wiped it in Disk Utility and set it up as a wireless Time Machine disk. This has been great, as far as the lack of effort to backup. However, the HDD is constantly waking, spinning up and immediately shutting down. This occurs roughly every 5-10 minutes. It still backs up just fine, I am just concerned about the wear and tear of constant spin ups and shutdowns on a nearly 3 year old HDD. Also, the noise is really annoying. I appreciate any help!

I have a Seagate 1.5 TB drive that I bought in February '09 connected to my 2 month old AExp. For the first two years I had the HDD I was connecting with FW800 to do backups. When I got the new router I figured I'd like to backup more transparently, so I wiped it in Disk Utility and set it up as a wireless Time Machine disk. This has been great, as far as the lack of effort to backup. However, the HDD is constantly waking, spinning up and immediately shutting down. This occurs roughly every 5-10 minutes. It still backs up just fine, I am just concerned about the wear and tear of constant spin ups and shutdowns on a nearly 3 year old HDD. Also, the noise is really annoying. I appreciate any help!

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