Hard Disk Drive turning off - having to spin up

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    Hi, my sata hard drive (160Gb) seems to be powering down when not being regularly accessed which I'm assuming is something to do with power management. Unfortunately, if I'm trying to play back a video in VLC or perform a similar task, the hard disk is having to spin up every two minutes or so interupting the video playback. Anyone know how I can change the behaviour? I know this does sound a bit odd as I realise everyone else is trying to reduce power consumption!
     
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