The damn thing has spun on and on at the end of its FireWire400 connection for over eleven years now, during which time five or six newer drives, both FireWire and USB, have gone tits-up between here and work. Its contents are regularly backed up to a "Time Machine" drive, but I marvel that this 80GB "SmartDisk" drive from 2003 has never given me any trouble during a period when units from better-known vendors have failed.

cordially,