Jason Scott, producer of "The BBS Documentry" said it best by saying: "Maxtor is the James Dean of Hard Drives. Live Fast, Die Young"

Personally, I've had HORRIBLE luck with 160GB western digital drives. I made a RAID array of them about 2 years ago, and I've had one crap out, then the other, now the replacements both decided to conk out at the same time.

~140GB of data down the pipes. Blech.