HD frequent parking and clunk noise

My HD makes a "clunk" noise as if it is parking constantly or at least once or twice a min. The noise is sort of faint and can only really be heard in an quiet room. However, it is annoying. i was wondering if others had this problem and if there is a solution besides the declunk program?

All modern HD's have an internal monitoring mechanism that checks on the health of the device. It is called [S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology)|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T], and whenever a Mac starts doing strange drive noises, you can open up Disk Utility, select the device (i.e., +186.3 GB Hitachi...+, not Macintosh HD) and on the bottom edge you will see a S.M.A.R.T. Status. Anything different from "Verified" means an error was detected and action should be taken cause failure may be imminent.

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