I still cringe a little bit when I see "Deskstar", but apparently they've turned it around in a big way. I'm still irrationally scared, though.

Me, too. I put one in my RAID, with part of my strategy is to use a variety of manufacturers and drive types so the drives don't fail all at once. This one is 50x the capacity of my cursed 75GXP...

http://www.computerhistory.org/groups/storagesig/media/docs/...

Same here. I'm surprised they haven't rebranded the line to try to shake the association (like Microsoft seems to be doing with IE).