Well I have the 250gig version fo the drive you are buying, the maxline 16mb cache and I like it, only running it for a matter of months but no problems so far. Maxtor has a 3 year warranty and seagate has a 5 year warranty. I like the performance of the 16mb Cache drive alot... to me it seems almost as fast as the 10K rpm drives, just more space and less money. If you were to have a problem with it, within the first 3 years of having it at least, warranty will cover the problem although any data on the drive will most likely be lost. Just a little food for thought there.
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