> Disk drive reliability comes and goes with the seasons. For years I > only ran Seagate disks, and wouldn't go near WD. Then, after a 30% > failure run on < 1 year old Seagates, I switched back to WDs, which > have been flawless for me. So far. And Hitachi has drifted in and > out of the picture over the years.
imho, applying 50 years of experience with spinning hard drives with the relatively new flash memory drive is a suspect comparison. - erik