Originally Posted by Gaybucks

We've purchased more than 60 drives over the last 5 years.

I have a theory that all the drive manufacturers get together once a year and decide who is going to have a bad run that year, because every single brand we've purchased has had multiple failures except for Samsung (no failures at all) and Seagate (only one failure.) But, to be fair, we've only had a couple of Samsung drives, not enough to really draw a conclusion.

Western Digitals are generally considered to be pieces of crap by many industry people; they have had more failures for us than any other single brand (probably at least 6 or 7 failures), but Maxtor is a close second (3 or 4 failures.)

Hitachi drives have been pretty reliable, though they sucked when their storage division was owned by IBM.

Seagate, next to Samsung, are the most reliable drives we have ever had. They do come with a 5 year warranty while all the others are generally 1 or at the most 3 years, and I think that says something.