Well my maxtor (30G) still zoom zoom around nice and no problems other than the loud whining (it became so bad that I had to remove it, that's why I got the WD80G). But after removing it I noticed the warranty exp. date on it say 2004 Feb., so I'm calling them tomorrow and see if I can get a silent one.
My old WD (5G) still goes fine in my sister's computer, that thing just doesn't want to die.
Have a year and a half old Seagate (40G) that does fine, long as I don't install it in the pull-out tray, if I do then it overheat and beeps for a while before corrupting everything on it. But running fine since installed it in the case instead of the tray.
I got a nice scare today after moving drives around, got the loud clicking and whirling sound coming from the new WD and then errors started till total death. I was "holy crap this didn't last long". Then realized that I plugged the modded power plug (using it for the 2x120mm case fans) into it so it was loose... duh... so every time I pushed the desk it lost power. Changed the plug, did a format (corrupted files hell) and fresh install of everything. So far it's great, system running silent and stable again.
Running DX9 and Catalyst 2.5 now, no clue if it's any good or not, but will start gaming some tomorrow and see. Doubt I'll notice anything, unless it start giving problems.
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