WD Passport Elite making a "ticking" sound, OS freezes until HD unplugged

Hi!
I've just got a WD Passport Elite 320GB USB2.0 external HD.
It almost works fine.
I've run into some weird problems:
- I left my MBP over night (backing up) and when I came back the HD just made a repeating ticking sound. When I opened the HD volume from the desktop no files showed up, Finder freezed, Cmd-Alt-Esc didn't work. Everything came back when I physially unplugged the HD. (Although the backup did succeed.)
- When I go into Time Machine it sometimes hangs too. Same thing - I have to unplug the HD.
(- I had a lot of problem with Time Machine before I found out it doesn't support Master Boot Record-HDs. You'd think TM would warn you :/ Anyhow, I reset the Spotlight db. Maybe it's related.)
Has anyone had any similar experiences?
Could it be that the power-supply via USB isn't enough? (How can I check that?)
The HD has 2 x HFS+ journaled partitions, GUID table.
I'm using the left USB port on the MBP. I've tried unchecking "Put hard drives to sleep when possible". I haven't had that much time to test it yet though. I'm gonna take this HD on the road in a while, we'll see how it handles I guess.
**** I remember the good old days when uptime used to say something like 24 days.. I guess those days are gone.. sigh
BR
/0scar

Hmm, that is interesting that he usb ports are different - are you saying they have different power outputs?
I also have the Passport, and it connects and runs no problem on my MacBook Pro. But if I connect it to my older Powerbook, it just clicks and does not mount. Another Passport I had did exactly the same thing. Not sure what usb I was using though.
I would love to know more about this if there is any more info available.
Hugh

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