Question about Maxtor drives then.
I have tried an 80GB version of the Maxtor ATA-133 8mb cache hard drive three times in the last 16 months. The last two have failed immediately (within a week of installation good thing they have three year warrantys) and the first one failed about 1 month after being pulled off the ATA-133 card that came with the drive and getting put on the ATA-133 IDE channel on my motherboard for about a month. The original drive came with an Adaptec ATA-133 card but my last two mother boards have supported ATA-133 onboard. BTW I currently run an ATA-133 40GB Maxtor drive with 8mb cache and have done so for over a year with no trouble.
