Toshiba 3TB DT01ACA300 hard drive. How can I disable head parking?

I bought a Toshiba 3TB DT01ACA300 hard drive. It occasionally makes a click, not like a drive failing click but it sounds a lot like a head parking click. I've heard that type of sound before in laptops that I have and it's tolerable. Coming from my desktop though it's infuriating. Is there any way I can disable the head parking? Does anyone here work for Toshiba? Does anyone else have this drive? Do you notice an occasional click?
I found another thread about this model and head parking but I think what that guy describes is different::
Toshiba 3TB DT01ACA300 - head parking problem
Also I tried Toshiba's support page. I entered serial number and model number and it doesn't recognize either, so if there is any new firmware or tool for this drive I can't find it. I did find a Toshiba technical support form which I will use if I can't resolve my issue here in the forum.
Thanks

bad drive, return it
L305-S5955, T9300 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD, Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit

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