I've owned several Maxtor hard drives in the past and they were great drives, faster than hell, and lasted like 10 years without failure with chain smoking and hitting the computer when you got pissed at a game they didn't screw up. They did have a little quirk though your drive size was measure in 1000 not 1024 so they were finicky and you learned a lot when using partitions on one of them and they suddenly were overfull.