Yeap... Almost 3 years edi and my Maxtor 40 GB is still serving me well... It's just that the maxtor hdd gets hot pretty quickly as for 40GB that time, it was quick a thin hdd...

Anyways, I think sometimes it depends on luck, I bought a WD1600 last year to use it as an ext hdd, I am not sure whether it's my hdd's problem or the ext casing power supply, the hdd now once in a while will emit some "tick tick" sound...

Got another WD2500 and using it as another ext hdd... It's working fine until today... though I must admit I just got this hdd for like,4 month...

Seriously, I'm starting to have doubts in toshiba notebook hdds.

My friend's hdd died few weeks ago, then it's another friend's hdd and mine died few days ago. All of us are using toshiba hdds

Got myself a samsung 60 GB due to the limited choice, hopefully it'll work out fine.

Haih. The hdd just died without any notice. It was working in the afternoon and when I turned on my lappy in the evening, there's some weird noise coming out from the hdd (something like the hdd can't run and some mechanical sound like something getting stuck).

Replaced it with an overpriced Samsung (damn the brits). sigh

After seeing 3 hdd (including mine) died in almost the same time frame, I couldn't agree more.

Hopefully this samsung will last longer

Actually I wanted to try out Seagate and such, it's just that, the PC World here is not selling any of those. All they are selling are Samsung

However, I do find that the Samsung fluid bearing technology is rather interesting as my laptop is all quiet now.