Re:Maxtors have always died for me (5 out of 10) (Score 1)

I had 5 broken Maxtor drives out of 10 i bought in the last 3 years. 3 of them broken with classical "click-of-death" symptoms, 2 of them with classical "system slowdown, then BSOD in Windows and then no reboot". They were installed on different desktop PCs, no swap, no server-like stress on them whatsoever. Won't buy Maxtor again until this trend is changed. In my personal workstation I have 3 Seagate Cheetah in SCSI RAID-5 (LSI ctrl) with a proper fan to cool them. I love that. My data is worth more than the price of 3 high-end drives. As for big IDE drives, I'd go for WD.