[wayout44]

This was a rumour about 5-6mths ago but became fact 1-2 months ago though.

Originally Posted by ANZAC_ELITE

Hopefully this will improve the failure rate of Maxtor drives.

On the reliability of Maxtor HDD's, only IBM HDD's are worse (I havn't come across a Hitachi HDD yet, though IBM by another name and if you don't believe me just look at a couple of the HDD's chips, and atm I won't use any of them (I've had to change far to many of the first 2 out to even think about the 3rd name).

I'll keep on using WD HDD's 1st and Seagate HDD's 2nd (the use of the PC I'm building is the deciding factor between those 2).