You're the second person so far to give Seagate a good reference.
Add a third voice to that. Four years ago I bought a brand new 40GB Seagate disc. I'm incredibly clumsy. In the shop, I dropped it. On the way to my fourth story flat, I dropped it again down the side of the staircase, approximately two stories far onto a concrete floor. And no, it wasn't in a nice box with padding - only that plastic cover thingy. Last weekend I replaced it with a 200gb SATA disc (Seagate, of course!), because I simply needed more space and a faster disc. The 40GB is now my mobile drive drive. Not a single problem with it at all... I do miss the old Connor discs tho. We used to play soccer in the mens dorm corridors with an old 80MB Connor IDE disc. I still have that disc, it's still working and still doesn't have any bad sectors! -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com