only one I have had no problems that are being talked about is Maxtor. Everybody I know that had WD have gone to maxtors and no more hard drive problems. From what ive experienced its been 1 out of 10 people who had luck with WD. Thats just my experience tho. Maxtor is A+ in my book and WD drives below the raptor dont exist to me. Knock on wood I decided to give the raptor drive a try from nothing but good feedback and so far so good.