Hard disk question

[Gunbuster]

Hi all,
came into work this morning, logged into my PC and after around 5 mins, the whole thing locked up. Reset it, went away for some water and it had a big black screen saying please insert a floppy. Rebooted and the bios couldn't find the drive. Shut the whole thing down, checked the cables to the HD, pushed them in. Powered it up and all was fine. Ran a SMART program on it and it reckons its ok (around 70-80% good), ran a full scandisk with surface scan. It reckons it is pukka. My question is, am I still worth asking for a new HD? I have a rigorous backup regime as it is so I have no worries about my data. Its more downtime I'm worried about. The HD is around 2.5 years old and is the only surviving member of a pack of 4 Maxtor 40GB HDs, all the others failed. It is a 6L040J2 or Diamond Max Plus.

Any help appreciated, I know a lot of you use Maxtor's so if this is a known bad drive that would help.

[Gunbuster]

Just did it again, swapped it over to secondary, but the CDrom is still seen when thats on primary so I don't think its the ide controller on the motherboard. 1 dead drive me thinks.

[jarvo]

yes get a new one.

iv had 2 maxtors (out of about 20 ive owned and installed) just die recently.

[Gunbuster]

Just tried the primary channel and it won't recognise anything, even with different cables. The HD is fine. I was only using the 2nd drive as a scratch disk for photoshop anyway so I'll make do with half an ide controller.