Just to be devil's advocate (and admittedly off-topic) out of the 10 or so Maxtor hard drives I've had in the last 10 years or so, only two have EVER failed and that was due to piss-poor ventilation leading to incredible temperatures in the drive itself (these were 4GB and 5GB dinosaurs by today's standards that threw out loads of heat) in a shitty bottom-of-the-pack desktop (as opposed to tower) chassis. The third drive I got, I ran it with the case off - didn't fail until years after it had actually been replaced with a bigger one.
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Just to be devil's advocate (and admittedly off-topic) out of the 10 or so Maxtor hard drives I've had in the last 10 years or so, only two have EVER failed and that was due to piss-poor ventilation leading to incredible temperatures in the drive itself (these were 4GB and 5GB dinosaurs by today's standards that threw out loads of heat) in a shitty bottom-of-the-pack desktop (as opposed to tower) chassis. The third drive I got, I ran it with the case off - didn't fail until years after it had actually been replaced with a bigger one.