I just bought a maxtor 200 gig today for 80 bucks. I come home and see that there a couple of deals even better (price per GB) for wd and hitachi 160 GB HDs (all 7200 RPM ide internal drives), although these require waiting for those ridiculous rebates (which I hate)--the maxtor was 80 bucks out the door. I've only had my original (which is a maxtor) and a WD 80 gig which I installed as a secondary about a year ago and is now full, plus a couple of WD 120 usb 2.0 external drives which I use for BU. I've heard that hitachi has the best warrenty, but that doesn't help if they just replace the HD without replacing the lost info.