Desktop Computer Review: Maxtor 1000GB Diamondmax Sata 7200 Rpm 32MB 3.5IN Retail Review

I have an e-machine 3500+ that was justing chugging along with an PATA hard drive and PATA CD/DVD burners.
Many times the CPU would hover around 100%, and occasionally drop to 50%.

Now with a SATA hard drive (and it's 32 Meg buffer) the same machine
gets into the 5-10% CPU usage when idling.
When launching my internet security suite (Blink by EEye) and my browsers, I might hit 99% CPU usage for a up to 30 seconds, then drops below 50%.

My system is also very quiet compared to how it was with the older PATA drive [another maxtor].

It's only been a few days, but so far so good.Regarding the other reviewer's 1 star review:

I know how irritating a bad product can be.

As they said, anything mechanical "will fail" sooner or later.
(we always hope for it failing Later, not Sooner)

Regardless of a company's warranty or past reputation; I've seen hard drives of all brands develop problems of either:

1. electronic (controller card or pre-amp circuit) or
2. mechanical (stepper motor, spindle motor, head crashes)

I install hard drives for client's. I also recover data from drives that "went south".
I've worked with 100's of drives over the past 15 years.
Brands including old ones that no longer are in business; like Conner and Quantum.
Plus brands like WDC, IBM, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor, and a few re-badged ones from compaq.

If anyone is interested in how hard drives work, and how you approach repairing them (like the "Click-of-death" error) the best book I found was by a guy named Scott Moulton.
His book title is Forensics & Data Recovery. [lulu publishing]
In 516 pages, he covers symptoms diagnosis, recovery software products and physically opening & repairing inner parts of the drive.

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Product Description:
Designed for power users, video editors and multimedia PC users who need the ultimate in performance, the Maxtor Basics SATA Hard Drive Kit features a hard drive ideal for the speed you need, the storage you want, and the power you crave.Upgrade to SATA and take advantage of one the fastest interfaces - with the largest cache - on the market today. The SATA version offers MaxBlast software for intelligent formatting and partitioning perfect for multi-stream video applications, high speedgaming, or RAID systems.. With up to 16MB cache buffer, the fast Serial ATA interface, and native command queuing help produce this high-powered storage solution.