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Sansa, have you considered Seagate? They have a 5 year replacement warranty. I'm pretty sure some of the other manufacturers offer a greater than 12 month warranty also.
Next thing to consider is RAID. You'll still need to back up (RAID is not a replacement for backups!), but if a drive fails your equipment continues working, rather than being offline until you can find a replacement.
FWIW I had a really bad run with a particular model of Seagate drives (all four failed within 18 months), but apart from that the only other drive that has failed in the last 5 years was an IBM DeathStar.
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