I'm running a quantum atlas 10K drive, and I have nothing "bad" to say about quantum. For a large percentage of this past year, their drives were the fastest drives available in the world, so I don't think anyone has any right to say that since they don't have the name brand recognition that maxtor has that they are automatically not as good. If people only bought the "best" drives and not the "cheapest" drives, then none of you would have ever heard of maxtor. I also own a maxtor 60 and haven't had any problems with it. Its fast enough to play my mp3's which is what I bought it for, besides that, its not a very exciting drive.