Beware of maxtor
I loved Maxtor drives, that was up until my company bought 20 of them (we buy parts and i assemble and configure them) and 15 of the 20 were bad. And 3 of the replacements they sent us were also bad. And 2 of the 5 initial drives that we thought were OK, got put into PCs and eventually died and had to be replaced. We used their utility to check them and the drives could not even perform a basic test, we got error code R03, usually with the first 3 digits of the serial number preceeding the error code.
Maxtor of course replaced all the drives but that was one huge oversight by their quality control department. If they did it once it is bound to happen again.