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Your Maxtor's will fail in 24 hours. I guarantee it.
Seriously though, the reason why I am scared of Maxtor's is that the one place I worked at used Dell computers, and every time I checked the device manager (out of pure curiosity, I swear) it was always a Maxtor HD, and they would always fail every couple of months.
However, my girlfriend's computer has been running solidly for a couple of years on a Maxtor.
Nonethless, I wouldn't buy one.