I don't know how old this drive is. My friend is a computer tech in Nashville and one of his customers gave it to him along with a computer he no longer wanted. The drive is a Maxtor in an external hard drive casing. So I imagine it's a few years old. The hard drive on my desktop is almost 5 years old and seems to be going strong. If I knew anything about computers, I'd swap out the hard drive for this faulty one seeing that I don't use my desktop for much of anything other than emergency storage.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi