My friend,

As a system admin, I would like you write a few words about todays hard disks, especially for the mongsters (terrabytes ...).

Is it true that as time goes on, hard disk become less trustworthy?
Is it my idea than today hard disk fail more often, especially the first week after the buy?
Assuming i buy a new hard disk, do you suggest a crush test, to force somehow the disk to reveal its infancy death?
Is it more deficult to be repaired?

Eleana

For me I would rather take a small capacity drive say a 320 to 500G drive and try to get Samsung drive to do my work with. I know the large drives offer a lot of storage but for me the more you offer the less you get in the end. Older drives with less storage capacity last longer than the newer drives of today. I still have a drive that is not even 1G of data in a very old notebook computer and it is still well and alive after 20 years. I am not saying I still use this drive but notebook and drive still work today. I feel like drives are make faster and less expensive so that you do not pay so much for them in the end. You best bet is to get more drives of small capacity and store you data on multiple drives. I would look into Samsung if I were you when buying for systems and storage. Stay away from WD and Seagate, and that means Maxtor too because it is not in the Seagate family. Before I used mostly IBM and Maxtor drives but now have switched to Samsung.

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Iorana Haraharaini

It sound as we going on more unreliable they become.
Where do you thing is due the early infancy hdd problems I see more often nowadays?

90% is bad user. And when DR needed, unfortunately on Samsung very few men work on them 100%

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