Talk:Click of death

...of death

I'm not very familiar with the term "click of death" but presumably it must have been derived from the blue screen of death, or visa versa? -- MacAddct1984 21:21, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Possibly, but I believe it has to do more with the fatalistic view that data on the ZIP disk and the ZIP drive is unrecoverable and unrepairable, respectively.--Kevin586 22:26, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

mouse clicks of death

Mention other clicks of death. E.g., I almost clicked my mouse on a virus infected link, etc.

"head crash" or "servo failure"

"The term is also used more broadly to refer to failures of several other kinds of disk storage systems. In all cases, the click of death is characterized by a noticeable clicking or buzzing sound and is usually caused by a head crash."

"On non-Zip systems (usually a hard disk), the click of death refers to a similar phenomenon; when a hard disk has a hard error or servo failure, the head actuator will buzz and click as the drive tries to recover from the error"

Which one is it?? --Johnny 0 18:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)