Not sure what to think anymore. A number of years ago Western Digital drives kept dying on me. I was rather sick of it, so I bought Maxtor instead and they lasted. I bought 20GB, 40GB, 160GB, 200GB and finally 300GB drives all from Maxtor and now the 200GB drives are crapping out on me. Not just one either, but two at the same time, followed by a third one a couple days later. 2 out of those had been out of warranty since over a year ago, but the DiamondMax Plus 10 drive was manufactured in March 2005. I RMA'd it and got the replacement in today — a refurb. Bleh. On the other hand, as I read the their agreement, this drive is now going to have a warranty of 90 days or whatever was left on the old drive, whichever is longer. And the DiamondMax Plus 10 had a three-year warranty. What ever that's all about, since usually Maxtor drives just have a one year warranty.

Either way the warranty doesn't help me recover any data, but I run all my drives in RAID-1, anyhow. As long as I didn't just jinx it. I can already see myself having drives fail on me in pairs. Greaaat.