no one blows up more hard drives than Dog!!

I too had probs with some older Maxtor; Seagates appear to be #1 now..
I also like Western Digital, as they are a bit less expensive than the Seagates...lots of cheap Hitachi stuff out there now also...

Came with my antec case.

Last I checked newegg.com had some:

http://www.newegg.com/app/Viewproduc...rc hFor=screw

But they look either sold out or not selling atm. :(

Though my local store, PC Corner had them as well.

Just ask your store for "rubber HDD mountings". ;)

Me too. I haven't had any of my WD drives fail yet (knock on wood). As far as cooling, I think as long as the case fans do a good job, it shouldn't be too big of a factor. I have a WD 74GB Raptor and a WD 120GB SATA on one computer along with numerous other "eye candy" in the case and no heat problems so far.

I have the following drives Installed....

Only ever used Maxtor, when I tried an IBM It failed after 6 months, and lost tons of data.....

I tend to back up things now on DVD, if any go down, which they haven't for a couple of years...It's not that big a deal now......

i agree cooling is critical with hdd as i had a few die on me untill i brought a temperature monitor unit (hardcano 12 ) that monitors the four drives that i have now and when they get hot it increases the fan speed ( which rarely does now as it showed me my main intake fan was failing

i use maxtor & western digital

Out of all the HD's I've ever had going back to my 286 I've had more Maxtor than any other brand. I've only had two drives fail and only one of those was a Maxtor. The Maxtor was about 5 years old and the other drive was a WD that was only 6 months old.

Main System:
Maxtor 5T040H4 [Hard drive] (40.98 GB) -- drive 1,
rev TAH71DP0, SMART Status: Healthy
Maxtor 6Y160P0 [Hard drive] (163.93 GB) -- drive 0,
rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy

In my old system I have setup in my boys room as an internet backup machine I have another Maxtor running in it 10GB B)

:lol: Can you guess how old that drive is?

I would like to know DoG if you have your HD's to shutdown under your power settings. If so, what is your setting. I have always set my drives to stay on all the time and never shutoff. I think kicking on and off is hard on them much like our motherboards.

Just my $.02

The drives are all in cooled, removable bays and never power down untill i either have to change one of them or am shutting the system down for maintainance, like swapping graphics cards or mobo's etc
Incidentally i have a an old WD here that has outlived around 6 various model Maxtor drives :)

Guess I'm really lucky :D

I really do trust what all of you guys say and will seriously consider your ideas when I spend more $MONEY$ on another drive.

Honestly, i have nothing but trouble with Maxtor drives. I had a Maxtor fail earlier this month (or late last month), it's sat here on my desk next to my monitor. DiamondMAX Plus 9 160GB ATA/133. When i first bought the drive it worked for 27 days before it failed, i took it back to the store and they replaced it. That drive lasted 29 days before it died, took it back to the store and they replaced it. This replacement lasted 12 months and 18 days before it died, no warranty left on it so i had to add it to my pile of paper weights in the corner, i figure if i save enough of them i can weigh parts of them in for scrap to buy a decent drive!