Hitachi 7K750 Power Settings and Load Cycle Count

Hello All-
I installed a 500GB Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 on Friday. I have set it up with both a Mac OSX 10.6.8 partition and with a Windows 7 Professional SP1 partition. The system is a 2010 MacBook Pro 15in. 
As of now the "load cycle count" acorrding to SMART Utility is 1614 with 29 power on hours. This seems quite high given the amount of time it has been in use. From what I have read the power settings could be to blame. I have tried to use hdapm but it is not compatible with this drive. Any ideas of what I could try to stop it from increasing at this rate?
-Thanks  

Count of load/unload cycles into head landing zone position.[16]�vThe typical lifetime rating for laptop (2.5-in) hard drives is 300,000 to 600,000 load cycles.[17] Some laptop drives are programmed to unload the heads whenever there has not been any activity for about five seconds.[18] Many Linux installations write to the file system a few times a minute in the background.[19] As a result, there may be 100 or more load cycles per hour, and the load cycle rating may be exceeded in less than a year.[20]
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