It seems that Seagate took over Maxtor "at some time in the past". A quick Google search would indicate that the Maxtor name is now only used for external (or portable) hard disks. KeithMac says the only HDD he had fail was a Maxtor, well, I have had Western Digital, Hitachi and Seagate IDE drives all fail on me over the years, with capacities from 40 MB (yes, megabytes) to 120 GB.