Clicking is physical contact. It can be the heads against the plattera(crash) or physical limitations because nothing is telling the heads to stop moving because they don't know where to stop. Like a old record player that never senses the location of the needle.
This can be the mounts or cable, bad contacts or firmware. That means making sure your drivers and firmware are up to date and all our contacts are secure.
I'd try it on a different piece of equipment before I gave up on it. A new external mount or mount it internally (if PC).
Since it is 10 years old then make sure you have the jumpers set correctly. If it was your main drive then it may have been set as master instead of slave and I think 10 year old drives also had the autodetect option.
Old drives usually are slow spindle motors or bearing issues and create whirring sounds instead of clicking, unless you ignored those sounds and let it run resulting in a crash.
Good luck. You reminded me that I have a number of old drives around that I should run for a few minutes just to keep them from seizing.
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