I had a very bad experience with Maxtor disks in the late 90s – they ate themselves and took my data with them. But a couple of events recently led me to owning two Maxtor disks - an external 250GB Firewire/USB and a 200GB internal (that I promptly stuck in a Firewire case).

Both of them have failed. At the same time. Together. Taking approximately 400GB of data with them. Fucking yay.

The 250 I’ve resurrected temporariliy – I stuck it in the freezer and it seems to have woken up. The 200’s cooling off right now, we’ll see how long it makes it.

NOTE TO SELF: Seagate or Western Digital ONLY. Accept no substitutes, dickhead.