Click syndrome

Anyone old enough to remember the click syndrome in the mid 90's that the Iomega Jaz drives had?
I think it's back in the G-RAID's
The syndrome was a click, hang, click, hang the system.
If you then took that drive or media to another system, you would just pass the click syndrome on to that system.
I had the same problem with my 500gig G-RAID from g- technologies (used to be owned by Medea)
I have gone through three replacement drives thinking it was a bad disc. Then I took the drive and put it on my home machine to test it out. At first It worked fine and then Click, hang, click hang. The new drive starts clicking again.
So far I can't find anyone old enough or in the business long enough to know what I'm talking about.

I got my G-Raid for free so I'm not complaining...
My wife won it at Macworld SF last month and handed right over to me. It works great and yes I hear the clicking too but it's not the same click of death that Jaz and Zip drives had in the old days. I do remember that, the difference with the G-Raid is "that it still works" regardless of the clicking. I think that's the hardware RAID controller putting the drives to sleep, you have no control over that. I'll take a hardware RAID over a software one any day of the week. I think G-Technologies makes some really nice products, I just wish their newest toy (G-Raid Pro) had a eSATA interface instead of a Firewire 800. If it wasn't for that, I'd be all over that one.
Now back to the clicking, I can hardly hear it with my other 12 hard drives whirring up a storm next to the G-Raid.

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