Seagate slapped with class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rate

Yep price RW disks
Disks are good for somethings but are becoming unpractical.

Borg 386 said:

...But still, I trust those better then having all my files on a HDD only to have it fail one day & loose it all...

That's true of any media, not just HDDs. Data isn't safe unless it exists in at least three different places, such as on the computer, a local backup that isn't connected to the computer except when updating the backup, and on an offsite backup. That way, if one medium dies, you will still have your data on the other two.

HDDs are far more convenient and, volume for volume, much, much less expensive than optical disks, especially with larger amounts of data. As long as as you have proper data redundancy, they are just as safe as using optical disks or even tape.

An example of a basic backup scheme using HDDs would be to have one instance of your data on one or more HDDs in your computer, another copy on one or more HDDs that you keep at home but also keep disconnected from the computer except when updating the backup (external HDDs are the most popular for this although one can also use internal type HDDs in a dock or hot swap bay), and a third copy kept on one or more HDDs offsite, such as at a trusted friend's or neighbor's house, in a lockjed desk or locker at work, or a bank safe deposit box. The offsite and on site copies should be swapped frequently to keep the offsite copy as up to date as possible.

Since an offsite backup is up to date only to the date the backup was last updated, one way to avoid losing data added or changed after the last time the offsite backup was updated is to also maintain a cloud backup using a reputable paid cloud backup service, such as Carbonite.com, Crashplan, or Backblaze (stay away from free cloud storage sites; those are not very secure and are notorious for disappearing without warning). A cloud backup site can also be used solely for the offsite backup but recovery will be slow. However, by using both the cloud backup and one or more offsite HDDs, one can recover most of one's data from the offsite backup. Recovering the remainder from the cloud backup will take far less time since you have already recovered most of the data.

My own backup scheme is somewhat more complex (ok, anal) but it is still essentially the same as above, except I use twice as many HDDs in the onsite and offsite backups (four backup copies altogether instead of two) as well as the cloud backup (I use Carbonite.com).

Yikes that is a boot that needs the boot :)

You might want to download a copy of HD Sentinal to check out the drive and replace it if needed.
Hard Disk Sentinel Trial version - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Weird :/