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all hard drives will fail.
"right now" we generally are seeing more maxtor failures than others, but that doesn't mean a whole lot really. We don't have enough failures in the datacenter on a daily/monthly basis or whatnot to get decent statistical distributions. That said, we generally average around 1 hard drive failure a day that we're swapping out (out of what we estimate to be over 8,000 installed hard drives).
I'm a big fan of Seagate, and they come with a 5 year warranty. But really, any modern hard drive will likely give you the same reliability. Basically, it seems to be luck followed very far by access patterns and evironment which will dictate a drive failure.
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