I have noticed, over the past two weeks, that sometimes my computer paused briefly (about 1/2 to 1 second) then it would be fine for a while. Then it would do it again. It was mainly while playing games on the "E" partition, which is one of the 3 partitions on that disk and the partition where all my games (except FSX) are installed. So although I don't know for sure that the drive will fail, I wouldn't be surprised. No worries for now, I spent the day backing everything up! ;)

Mark