eeeek all my HD's are seagate 7200 rpm barracudas (ata100 IDE) 2x20s and a 40 (Gb) one of the 20s just came up with bad sectors during a routine defrag it was only 2 years old so I checked the serial on the website and they confirmed it was still under its 3yr international warranty (I bought it whilst on holiday in singapore)I sent it away and got a new one Loverly ! (and I managed to get all the data of too (except a 1 minute guitar track that I hated any way).My 2cents which is sooooo of topic now .