It's interesting that on the mac forum that I frequent, the general sentiment that the drives from most to least desirable (based on reliability and noise) go something like: seagate, WD, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, with many people not liking WD especially due to noise, and Maxtor & Hitachi/IBM being panned for low reliability. However, everybody here seems to like Maxtor and WD, and to not like Seagate. Why is that?...different demands on the drive?