Until i get a maxtor die on me ill still buy them ive used them in a few pc,s ive built the 40 gig in the pc im using at the moment spends about 8 to 9 hours in use each day and sometimes ive had it running 3 days non stop .The ibm i had was an oem drive and was not a gxp which were known to have a lot of faults, even western digital hard drives seem to be unreliable. I know maxtors arnt the fastest but for me and my mates they have been reliable.samsung was worse than the ibm this tried to catch fire after 2 weeks use. i exchanged it for a maxtor.if my maxtors start dying ill start buying seagate drives . :-)
