@Levitateme (Levitateme) posted a new topic, subject "how long before i get a new hard drive?". It read:

   A friend of mines hard drive just quit or something he said. i have had my hard drive since…summer of 2002, its 120 gb hard drive i am not sure the brand, dont know how to find that out. but i am nervous now that maybe mine is going to quit on me? and also whats a good reliable brand of hd?

To which @JDex (JDex) replied

    Hey Lev…
    
    I made a rather lengthy post of my experiences with hard drives here.
    
    You may find it useful.

@nafa (nafa) replied

    I had two Maxtor firewire external drive that failed after just over one year. The internal HDD of my 2001 HP PC started showing intermittent SMART error since last month. Timely backup is the only protection against loss.

After which, @2big (2big) added

    That's rather odd for both of your cases…I've had my old 1.8 GHz computer with the same 80 GB Western Digital for about 4 years now (I purchased it in 2000). I haven't had any problems whatsoever with it for that whole duration, and I'm not really what you'd call a “light user” in terms of hard drives. I guess it really depends on certain conditions you put it to, and different companies use different technologies on their HDs.

Then @JDex (JDex) said

    I think it more depends on the luck of the draw. Every company can make a lemon, and every company can make a gem. Which one you get is purely circumstance.
    
    I have a very old drive in a very old system (P1) that has been running very well for nearly 9 years. I use to use it as a firewall/network cache. I still could, if I was up to setting it up.

So @2big (2big) replied

    I guess, yea. Every person has their horror and success stories of each company. I personally love Western Digital though, I've purchased three drives now that have lasted me for as long as I can remember.

So @CGTalk_Moderation (CGTalk_Moderation) replied

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