Originally Posted by iwantchixx

You guys need to monitor the dirve's health. There are apps that can monitor the overall health of the drives physical parts. One of which is "Speedfan".

My maxtor is around 80% healthy since the day I got it. That's a good health actually. The WD was 90% at first and now 8 months later it's at 80%. A bit faster if loss of health but it's porbably going to stay at 80 for a few years.

If the drive drops bellow 65% it's time to use the drive for less important work. After 50% send it back for recycling. It's just not trustable.

Back your stuff up people. I cannot stress that enough. I just formatted yesterday and am already back up and running 100% because I kept constant backups of everything on an external 20g drive.