most reliable manufacturers????

[blueonblack]

PSU: I've been running two Kingwin units almost non-stop for two years now, been moved from system to system countless times and I've never had a single glitch. One was even dismantled, painted and reassembled twice, and had the 8-pin connection cut off and then reconnected. It's been abused, really, and hasn't complained at all.

RAM: I've never had RAM fail. I've used OCZ, GSkill and Corsair

Motherboard: MSI. I have three of them in use at the moment, and again have never had any issues with any of them. Only once have I strayed from MSI and that was for a high-dollar Asus board that failed.

Hard Drives: Samsung. I've lost Hitachi and WD drives but never had a problem with Samsung.

[Blibbax]

How ancient is 'ancient'? Because I've worked with a lot of their drives from the ~500MB-6GB era (mid-late 90's) and those are far and away the most unreliable drives I have ever used...well, except for deathstars... Because of that, for the longest time I refused to buy any WD drives, though now I am perfectly happy with all the WD drives I have that were made in the last 10 years or so.

I've none smaller than 12GB, but these drives have taken a lifetime of abuse. I think you might be older than me