Title: Design Flaw - high failure rate
Product review: We purchased 250 new HP computers which all shipped with this drive. From week one we had drives failing regularly. After 1 year over 35% of the drives have failed. HP has replaced all of them (with Seagate drives) under warranty but that doesn't recover the occasional data files that users have stored on their local hard drive with no backup. When it goes bad you will hear the drive head armature actuating several times and then it gives up. For one particularly user I actually dissembled the bad drive and a good drive and swapped out the armature. This allowed the drive to work long enough to get to all the user's data.
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