which drives are less prone to failure? your favourites

[Chico]

Hi all

I have asked this question on another topic but I thought I should create its own thread.

I need to buy a new laptop drive (>250GB) to replace a dying seagate momentus. I would like to ask you. Since most of you are pro's used to seeing dying hard drives, would you be able to point out which models / brands are more prone to failure, if any?

I have always used hitachi travelstars for the speed but also seagate momentus for the good value performance/noise.

I am also interested in hearing about desktop drives as I will be looking to buy a >1.5TB drive for yet some more backups.

Thanks in advance!

[drc]

which models / brands are more prone to failure

Anything you don't have a backup of

[Chico]

lol

[fzabkar]

Study: A Look At Hard Drive Reliability In Russia:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hdd ... ,2681.html

At the moment, Hitachi drives appear to be the most reliable, followed by Samsung.

[thatdellguy]

Keep in mind that market shares are different for each country and actual failures may not be accurate.

[guru]

This says nothing about the total number of claims handled directly by the retailer or manufacturer.

[Chico]

It seems that seagate has lowered its default warranty from 5 years to 3 years now on a lot of drives, I've just learned that

[guru]

Perhaps you can do some research on MTBF and come to your own educated conclusion?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/H ... -or-Farce/

[Chico]

OK thanks.