@ Floid
Heh. Funny how different peoples' experiences with products can be. I don't trust Western Digital at all, I've seen too many disks of theirs fail prematurely. I don't trust Maxtor that much, though my experiences with their disks are less bad than with WD. I had one of those infamous IBM Deathstar drives, which resulted in my second-worst data loss disaster :-) I now use a Seagate Barracuda IV, which runs literally silent and not over-hot, and back up my data onto CD much more often... 20 CDs in a shoebox so far :-)
It's much like peoples' greatly differing experiences of Windows. Some people find certain versions don't ever play up for them, other people find the direct opposite.
The only advice I give to people thinking about a hard disk purchase is that it's best to buy a lower capacity disk, say half the size of the largest available. The 'latest and greatest' tend to be the most problematic IMO. Also, remember that every disk manufacturer has had their own major PR disaster regarding dodgy batches of disks :-)
