One of 3 reasons causes the "click of death": 1: There is damage to the magnetic media on the platters themselves 2: The read head on one of the arms has died, causing the drive to not recognize one of the platters 3: The controller card screwed to the bottom of the drive has failed (#1 reason for the drive going south)
In regards to the claim that no one brand drive is more prone to fail to another, I call BUNK on that claim! As a serviceman for computers around town, I will say that I will never own, nor recommend a Maxtor drive to anyone! Vintage, not so vintage, brand new.......it doesn't seem to matter, these things just like to die without warning, even if not used all that much. At the trailing end of Western Digital's run of ball-bearing drives, the same seemed to apply to them, however since their move to the newer fluid bearings, they seem to be about average again...........except for their green label drives anyway... A lot of people swear by Hitachi drives and I've never understood it. The "Deathstar" IBM drives were made by Hitachi during their entire run. The stigma hurt IBM so badly that they sold off the whole division to Hitachi over it. Hitachi drives do seem to be somewhat reliable nowadays, but their performance is terrible compared to other drives, especially in the same price range. I can't tell you the number of MacBook users that have had me replace the stock Hitachi HDD due to it being so terribly slow! Anyways.....enough rambling! On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:29 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:59 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > >> >> On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >>> >>> Google's studies of drive failure are the best data we have, >>> <http://tinyurl.com/2bfcgfp>, the rest of the stuff I can find is >>> exemplified by things like this <http://tinyurl.com/36x6vqo> which is quite >>> possibly the stupidest experimental design for a "statistical survey" I've >>> ever seen. >>> >>> I didn't know Iomega made hard drives... >> >> I'm with you on this Bruce, so when I got home I opened up my two Iomega 320 >> shirt drives and to my surprise if found two of them loaded with >> questionable Seagate Momentus HDDs so if one takes a dump like the article >> says may happen more so than the Iomega drive who do I call?Ghost Busters?. >> > > I opened the Deskstar and I can see the arm moving across the platers > endlessly, That's the clicking noise. Why is it doing this. > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda USA > Sent from my MBP > > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
