> > > > > > > > The speakers MIGHT be the problem. There is a pair of them, each > > twice the size of an IMSAI, right beneath the macintosh > > I see... Now, while a lot of older drives locked the pack to the

Guys! I know of several deaf and impaired hearing people who likes music at full blast thru regular quality 60W with subwoofer and their hard drives cared nothing a whit about vibration level. I think something is funny: (Thobbing of music...boom boom bop...) 1. Did someone disconnect/connect scsi stuff often? 2. Did something bang the table where Mac sits often? 3. Specific brands is no better than some and why didn't Max give us what kind of both toasted hds was? 4. Termination issues sometimes cooks the hd especially selection of termination power used. 5. Sharp resonanent sounds sometimes can make the pc chassis resosate thus killing hd life early. That does means to some machines with plastic chassis and some that will resnsonate, shaking the hd long and often. Push and pull on that hard drive bay to see how much it can shift or "pluck" it to see if it does vibrate. Magnetic field have nearly no effect on hd's inside that steel boxes unless Apple used plastic shell with thin tin sheets which that requires you to remove either speakers or the pc to different location at least 6" to 3 feet away. Magnetic field strength falls away at logithmic rate with increaseing distrance from the source. Jaosn D.