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Originally Posted by Gaybucks
I finally decided that a company willing to put a 5 year warranty on its drives must have some reason to believe that it's drives are reliable, and a company (in this case, Western Digital) that only puts a one-year warranty on their drives must realize they are crap. (In fairness, WD has now reinstated 3 year warranties.)
The only drives that I've *never* had a failure with, ever, are Samsung drives, but they aren't easy to find, and they are generally not the highest capacity drives available either.
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Samsung offer 1TB drives now. If you go back a few years you'll find even they had a bad run for a while.
The main problem I see with drive warranties - Seagate and WD anyway - is that they replace your failed drive with a reconditioned model. This may be a frankenstein of used parts that test to acceptable tolerances, or it may even just be a drive that is "re" factory formatted to quietly map out all of the bad areas and reset all SMART values to default. I've had about as much luck with Seagate reco's as I've had with their new drives.
One of the recos that Seagate sent me failed almost immediately - it had a high level of audible and tactile vibration, started click clacking from the moment it was switched on, and reported a SMART event within less than an hour. Crap.