I bought a 100 gig external Maxtor USB hard drive in December from Best Buy (Maxtor Personal Storage 3100). I was backing up the data on the hard drive to the server and the hard drive crashed (It is now only June). I only got about half the data off of it. I went to the Maxtor website to get an RMA, and imagine my surprise when I found out the warranty was only good for 90 days. What a piece of junk hard drive. NEVER buy a Maxtor drive. I'm sticking with Seagate. I bought an external Seagate drive \from Amazon and it is built like a tank and just hums along. Seagate bought Maxtor recently, though why they would besmirch their good name I don't know!Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware)