Yeah I love the WD drives... have had a few issues over the years with them, as I have with a few of the other companies... but I liked WD because they always sent me a new one, with a hold of a little bit of money on my card... but at least I was able to get a new one and get back up and running after usually only a day or two... Haven't had to reload windows in a while... well my computer that got struck by lightning had only been around for a year... and this current one is an HP that I just restored to a new install of Windows XP Media edition... but prior to rebuilding my other computer it has been running on about three years every day non stop with out re-installing Windows...