I just had a 40GB hard drive fail.... and it was a maxtor. I never had one of those failed before. Can you believe it? It was the Poser Drive! I had problems in the past with this drive... but I ran Maxtor PowerMax and it told me there were problems and it did the fixes as it suggested (prior to that I did a low level format on the entire surface). After the fixes, it recertify the drive as in mint condition. However, 3 months later it failed. And this time not even PowerMax could resurect it.