Got this piece of garbage about 2 years ago. It's a Samtack 250GB external hard drive. No problems for the first 18 months, then 6 months ago it started doing the whirring then clicking, whirring then clicking. No other notable problems though. All this time I was on Windows XP, Now I'm on Vista. As of yesterday, I can no longer transfer any files from my external to my hard drive. It transfers at 0bytes/sec, freezes when I try to do so. When I try to delete files on the external, it freezes momentarily before it finally lets me delete them. I don't really care about the hard drive, I just don't want to lose the near 200GB of music I've collected over the past 5 years.