My Maxtor 60GB just gave out after 3 1/2 years of good reliable service. I had about a weeks notice, and didn't really care because nothing of importance was on the drive. The drive actually still comes up, but after idle for a certain amount of time it "clicks" trying to read data, and eventually just stops trying to access. It's the first and only Maxtor drive I've ever had fail on me. I've never had a bad experience with Maxtor or Western Digital. Segate IDE drives on the other hand... Ack. I do have a pair of 10K Cheetah SCSI's right now that are wonderful and haven't had any problems with. I just need fo find the cash to put my RAID 5 box with >3TB of space in it. Then I won't worry about hard drive space, or crashing for a while. hehe