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Originally posted by tabascobobcat
All hard drives eventually fail regardless of make don't they ??
Seems like it can be just luck of the draw which one last longer. My last Dell crapped out early and I'm 4+ years now on my Toshiba. I like the screen on the Toshiba better too.
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All drives fail sooner or later. The bigger the drive size, the sooner it's prone to failure. It's nothing to see an old 6.4 gig drive still kicking after ten years, but amazing to find a 200 gig that will survive more than three years. There are only a handful of hard drive manufacturers in the world too, and all except seagate have dropped their warranty's down to one year. Seagate still gives a 5 year warranty on most of their drives. For what its worth, buy a drive with the longest warranty you can find, and back up important data at least once a month. my $.02 take it for what its worth.