Destroyed Hard Drives on my G5

Guys:
I don't know if this is a common problem or what, but it is very frustrating. In the last few 6 months to 12 months, I've had the following drive failures on my G5 Dual 2.7:
a) Total loss to LaCie 2TB drive via firewire 800
b) Another total loss to LaCie 2TB drive.
These LaCies don't mount, don't appear and are basically invisible to the system via profiler, disk utility etc.
c) A Maxtor internal 400GB drive with serious problems (corrupted files that I can't always open and general slowness)
And, for the killer and last major failure:
d) My internal OEM 400GB drive that came with my OS and my boot volume. This one no longer boots and clicks when you try to start the computer.
What the **** is happening? What could be happening to my G5 that is causing all these drive failures. At one point, I thought it was maybe just the LaCie's being bad quality or something, then the Maxtor was having problems (short of complete failure) and now the OS disk. I run Disk Utility pretty regularly to make sure everything is cool and I've found no errors so these failures come out of the blue to me. This is insane! Do I have any recourse?
I just ordered a Raptor drive to see if I can reinstall Leopard on it to get my system up and running again. Until then, my G5 is completely unusable.
HELP!!!

I may be having the same problem with a Fantom Firewire drive. I took it apart and the drive itself is made by Platinum. Looking on their website, I run across a little support info that would've been a nice thing to put in the owner's manual. If you hook up an audio video capture device to the same firewire chain it can damage the drive somehow. G4 and G5 Macs have all the firewire ports on the same chain so in order to not wreck the drive you have to install a card to connect the drive to. Have you ever connected any AV capture device at the same time the drive was connected? Hope this helps you out. Even more so, I hope that others read this and don't do the same and destroy their drives. I've seen a lot of Platinum drives installed in various enclosures sold by other HD manufacturers and I would be willing to bet that they don't print a warning on the box or in the manual either.

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