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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 1334049" data-attributes="member: 6406"><p>The thing with HD brands is that everyone has their own favorite brand, mostly for no good reason. Disks fail, so everyone says, "I had a (Seagate|Maxtor|Western Digital|Samsung) that failed so now I only use (Seagate|Maxtor|Western Digital|Samsung)." Buy something from a major manufacturer, and <em>expect that the disk will eventually fail</em>, because it will. Make backups. Consider getting an external enclosure that supports RAID 1.</p><p></p><p>To be fair, occasionally one manufacturer will come out with a model that is actually a lemon that you should avoid. To avoid this, Google "[HD manufacturer] [HD model] sucks" and read the results. If lots of people were having problems, make sure the manufacturer has fixed whatever the problem was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 1334049, member: 6406"] The thing with HD brands is that everyone has their own favorite brand, mostly for no good reason. Disks fail, so everyone says, "I had a (Seagate|Maxtor|Western Digital|Samsung) that failed so now I only use (Seagate|Maxtor|Western Digital|Samsung)." Buy something from a major manufacturer, and [i]expect that the disk will eventually fail[/i], because it will. Make backups. Consider getting an external enclosure that supports RAID 1. To be fair, occasionally one manufacturer will come out with a model that is actually a lemon that you should avoid. To avoid this, Google "[HD manufacturer] [HD model] sucks" and read the results. If lots of people were having problems, make sure the manufacturer has fixed whatever the problem was. [/QUOTE]
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