to 120 gb

I'm running this drive as my primary master and a comparable Western Digital (old boot drive) as my primary slave. Although the documentation is skimpy, it is adequate and it describes scenarios for replacing your boot disk or just adding another drive.

The included installation software is easy to use It provides for partitioning, allocating volumes and copying files between drives. Very nice and fast.

Jumper settings are clearly indicated in the documentation. I had no trouble by setting both drives to for "Cable Select" and using the cable that came with this drive. My computer is niticeable faster now.

Good show!

I purchased 2 of these drives for my ATA 133 array. They were speedy, I will grant Maxtor that, but crashed several times resulting in data lost, system rebuilds and so on. Anyway after the 2nd crash I got smart and moved my important files over to an old Western Digital drive I've had for almost 4 years now. Good thing too because not long after one of the two disks in the array (stripped not mirrored) completely died with no chance at recovery (would not even register with Maxtor's disk utilities). Thank god all a lost were some unimportant mp3s and the such. Anyway, you would expect more than 10 months on a Home PC disk drive. ATA 133 is nice, but reliabilty outwieghs the (small) bump in speed anytime.

in fact mine hasn't completed its imminent hard crash yet...it just burns for 30 minutes then quits...

no excess heat anywhere in the case...no software bug...it's this HD...

i won't rag on them totally, they have almost decent externals...except they don't vent well...

"it's been a good HD and now it has to die..."

z