i voted for maxtor..yes they crash , but mune run 24-7 and i push the h#*l out of them. price cant be beat for what you can do to them. Here is the kicker, i shorted one out (live mobo, and loose screw into drive) and they replaced it for free! and because the drive i had was smaller than the smallest one they had , i got the bigger one! not bad at all . and still all i had to pay was shipping back to them within 30 days. Thanks Maxtor !
one other thing ...the reason you only get "X" amount out of any given drive is because they withhold that ammount fot the partition info ....boot sector in relation to drive area for programs