WD Essentials - Clicks and then no response

I have a USB Western Digital Essentials external HDD that was intended as a backup and additional storage device for my iMac G5
Sometimes it works fine but most of the time it doesn't. When I power up the drive the iMac recognises it fine and can open the drive. When I then try and copy a file to the external HDD it works up to a random point and then I hear a click sound from the HDD (sounds like it is powering down then powers up again) at which time the iMac seems to lose connection and the transfer process hangs.
The only way to clear it is to power off the HDD and then back on again. Another problem.
If I then try to copy the same file again, it will stop and hang at exactly the same MB count as when the clicking error happened and I cannot copy the file over.
Occasionally this also happens when transfer a file from the external HDD to the iMac.
Have had the drive for a while and was well early in the piece only now over the last month or so have these problems surfaced.

My recommedation - get a new NON WD external FAST. I bought one and less than 3 weeks later, it died. It had my entire iTunes lib. on it and I was in the process of bcking up to DVD. Only had 10 discs done (47GB out of 423GB). iTunes was kind enough to allow me to re-download everything one time. One time ONLY. I will never get the opportunity again.
Another reason I say this, check out this website:
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-ii-*****/
Don't forget to read the 400 responses of others issues below. I am in there a couple of times.
Good Luck, and I am sorry for your problem.

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