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		 hummm but you can still buy 40 gig drives everywhere, so that may not be true.... 
 
but a chance the drive is dieing, or just a POS... now that its wiped put it in your box and see how it does.... 
 
though i have never really seen one slow down b4 dieing, jsut ones that are slow as compaired to new drives.... 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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