Talk:Click of death

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Contents 1 Better links? 2 ...of death 3 mouse clicks of death 4 "head crash" or "servo failure" 5 wrong internal link 6 Zip drive disection

[edit] Better links?

I really fail to see the relationship between the Blue Screen of Death and Ping of Death to the Click of Death. Just because they have "of Death" at the end doesn't actually imply a relationship. Especially considering that Click of Death is essentially a hardware issue while BSOD is, well, a software response (albiet sometimes to a hardware issue) and Ping of Death isn't even comparable since it's just an old networking/Internet exploit that has nothing to do with hardware (unless you count the fact that you must have a network device or a modem to actually receive the pings.)

Agreed, and the Zip of Death is similar to the PoD. They're all software issues, which don't belong on a page about hardware failures. Any opposition to removing those links? Kanhef (talk) 03:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ...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)

[edit] mouse clicks of death

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

[edit] "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) I'd venture that both conditions could cause this sound.--Kaze0010 03:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wrong internal link

"when a hard disk has a hard error or servo failure"

The link for Servo takes me to a disambiguation page. It should be changed to go directly to the correct article, but I don't know which one it should be. Does it refer to Servomechanism or Servo drive?

[edit] Zip drive disection

Back when the Zip click of death was still being blown off by Iomega, there was a website that showed a Zip drive taken apart and it also showed that an external magnetic field, even a fairly weak one from something like a poorly shielded CRT monitor, could cause the linear head servo of the drive, causing enough misalgnment for it to miss the tracking.

The site was later updated with info on a revised version of the Zip drive. When taken apart, it was discovered to have much larger magnets in the head servo and magnetic fields that would cause the original drives to malfunction didn't bother the revised version.