When I first got my 75GXP 75GB IBM drive i was excited. I heard on the reviews that these particular drives were good performers and that they were also very quiet. Okay, so when i plugged in the drive what happens, its loud as hell. When it reads and writes it grinds like a mofo. Fine, i looked for the IBM acoustic utility and set it on real quiet, i figured i can handle the penalty in access times. Everything goes fine, i cant hear anything when it reads/writes. Two months later, guess what, the drive fails. I didnt even have any warning whatsoever. One day i turned on the computer and the bios failed to detect the hard drive during bootup. I didnt do anything to this computer, i tested the drive on 2 other computers and the same problem persists. so I RMA the drive back to IBM and got a replacement 5 days later. Great a new drive i thought to myself. Just finished installing the drive into my system and guess what. the reads and writes are LOUD AS HELL just like before when i first got it. THis time ive decided to forget about the acoustic utlity and see what happens. I dont know what kind of drives the reviewers of the 75GXP had but my drive was loud as hell. My friend bought a 60GB western digital and his drive was so quiet i couldnt even hear anything at all when it reads or writes, its like its not there. I dont know how long my new IBM drive is going to last, but if it breaks down again like before im going to refund it back and get me a Western Digital or maxtor.