Thank you for the reply, I did a bit more reading on PS3 forums last night and discovered others had used WDIdle3 to change the firmware and it had indeed solved the problem for them, so I will give that a try. Many thanks! Edit: Could you also tell me if backing up the harddrive is necessary? Does ...

I hope this question will not be too unwelcome as I have the same problem with a WD Scorpio Blue, but with a Playstation 3 rather than with a PC. The insane frequency of the head parking causes playback skips when using video streaming services and I believe also causes games to hang and occasionall...