The hard drive I received as a replacement for another one that died on me has stopped working. Lots of information lost... I swear, I'll never buy Maxtor crap again!

Man that $ucks. Quite honestly, I've never had one problem with any of the Maxtor drives I've used or installed for others.

yeah MAxtor has been going done hill... quality wise.

Seagate bought them cheapish and taken the technology

Had a 250GB Max, 4 months later ... sayonara 200GB Animes

update: i bought a new hd. it's WD (it was cheap), but here's the fun part... I put the maxtor one (the one that failed) on a plastic bag and put it on the freezer for one day.

Today, I took it out and installed it back. Voila! It's working again... Right now I'm copying files from the old one to the new one.