I got a Travelstar 40gb about a month ago to put in my wife's laptop. I haven't had time to deal. Today I exhausted the space on my empeg and was going to upgrade one of the 20gbs in it to a 40, and either buy her another 40, or give her the 20.

Of course, the 40gb just makes a horrible noise when it tries to spin up, then spins down and I get a pump error. I have another laptop drive laying around, stick it in and the builder image pumps and formats it. Both connectors on the IDE cable, it fails (I didn't expect it would succeed; The noise is so horrible I can't imagine it working).

I bought something new which needs to be returned. Annoying, but not shocking. What really pisses me off is IBM has no cross-ship option; I'm willing to let them hold against my credit card, I just want a d%^ drive!

So much hatred, so little time.