Internal, external? :P

I've been using 72000 rpm maxtors with my macs for several years with no issues- four of them with my dual 867 (which am retiring) and my new dual G5 2.0 came with a 160 GB maxtor and I ordered another one (250 GB SATA maxtor) I also have a couple extra maxtors out in a firewire enclosure- that's been my real life experience - I did have a problem with one of the maxtors several years ago- seems that the directory got damaged- a friend of mine who is a tech was able to get it up and running, then I retrieved most of the info (I lost a partition) and reformatted the drive. It is still running in the firewire enclosure (120 GB maxtor) All together I have 2 250 GB maxtors, 5 160 GB maxtor and 2 120 GB maxtor. needless to say i have all my projects backed up to more than one of he drives. that has been my experience.

thanks, xavier
any other experiences, out there ??
both internal and firewire!
thanks guys

I mostly buy Seagate drives. However, Seagate, Western Digital, and Maxtor drives have all been pretty stable in use here at work (even though I'm not a Maxtor fan). Some of the drives make more noise than others. If you read the reviews on newegg.com, you can get some idea of which drives are quietest.

cheers :D