An original WD in a beige is rare.
We've seen many iMAcs come in with whining Maxtors - the equivalent Quantums -separate companies at the time rarely fail.
Seagate scsis used to be a joke - very fast but fail regularly.
It's a real surprise that Seagate does well now but they look to be the best manufactured. Maxtor looks cheap but so does WD.
Seagate looks well built and seems to last.
WDs do run hot but we've had very few failures and we go through a 1/ dozen 40 gig WDs a WEEK!!!!
Plus perhaps 20 - 30 other drives in machines and Firewire cases.
Far and away the largest failures are Maxtor from earlier machines but of course they provided a great number of drives.
Right now I'd take Seagate for reliability and WD for warranty and speed.
We'll see how the new Maxtor 300s make out. 5400 rpm and that tends to be less stress on the mechanism. Going to be fast as that size = very high data density.
Wow 1.25 Terrabytes inside a G4 tower
