So I power up my rig one evening and my 1yr old Maxtor 80gb D740X-6L starts making this awefull clacking noise that I can only describe as sounding very similar to the sound you would hear if you ...

I'm not looking to hook up a RAID config but I will add a second hard drive for storage at a later time. The WD drive is set to master with no jumpers and is on my IDE3 RAID port.