But dollar for dollar, I think over the years IBM has consistently made some of the most solid hard drives on the market. Warranty issues are the best in the industry. They fix and replace. And what did IBM do? They replaced all the bad ones. And still warrantied the new ones for three years. No change made. Hitachi will carry the ball, they have a good core of engineers.

I recently RMA'd two 9.1G SCSI SCA drives. They failed within three months of each other in the same array. I sent them back in a Seagate box with the preformed foam and egg crate. After IBM received the drives, they sent them back, broken still and said that I had voided the warrenty because one of the sides of the foam casing wasn't two inches thick. It was an inch and a half plus. That is rediculous. I know have two worthless IBM drives with no warrenties and don't work. I don't see how that = the best with warrenty issues.
MR

One kit that springs to mind is Swiftech's kit. I'm not really familiar with much in the way of complete kits, though, so there could be others that are also better.

And I certainly wouldn't say that I said "this sucks" and leave it at that. I gave reasoning for WHY the guide sucks. For the kit, I just said it wasn't the best, which it isn't. It's not too bad, though. Would probably be more effective in the hands of somebody that knew what to do with it, though. ;-)