Ipod freezing while syncing large files

My 30GB ipod video will freeze while sycing large files such as movies or audiobooks. When this happens, you can here the hard drive in the Ipod making alot of noise. I think the drive is near death. Has anyone had a similar issue?
I'm using an Intel Imac (OSX) with a mac formated Ipod. I have rebooted the Ipod and have even done a factory reset in the past. It will fix it for a little while, but the symptoms return.

I wish i could but im having the same problem. please someone help us!!

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    http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9118/vistafixesipodlu5.png
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    Message was edited by: FittyyeN

    your an idiot stardock, format doesnt work, fails to format -
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    i'm having the same problem. I have to hard reset it EVERY TIME! then when i go to re sync it, the songs that did get on the ipod have to resync again and then it will freeze again.
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