xy wrote:

maxtor drives are whiney.

i have one right now, and it's annoying as hell.

Don't know the current ones but my ancient Maxtor 120MB - lol - was always
whiney.

IBM Deskstars are blisteringly fast, well priced and virtually silent. I
have 2 in a RAID configuration.

Ohhh, if you can afford it, the extra drive that is, and a RAID
controller, you can almost forget about the implications of hard drive
failure. Mirror 2 drives and if one fails, the other still has everything.

Like pro servers. This is also where drive caddies are useful too - the
neatest RAID sytems have 'hot-swapping' - i.e don't even need to turn off
the PC to replace a failed drive. No-one even knows - just 'rebuild' the
mirror onto the target drive.


Graham