No way man *LOL* I purchased my 80 ata 133 maxtor for $99.99 new and have had nothing but good luck, and in pass mark and other benchmarking software I have seen no less than 147mb/s tranfers. This drive rocks, in my last system "now my girls" I had the ata 133 40 gb that is still running perfect and very fast. I have had a few probs with western digital and will now never buy anything from them again, I use only seagate and maxtor now for my pc's Sorry I am very opinionated *LOL*