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RELIABLE hard drives?? where's the QA
gang I have been reading up on the current crop of new/unused hard drives - the spinning kind - and am bummed to see the high levels of negative feedback on so many of the 'top ranked' hdd's. I have been sorting the rankings by user/owner feedback to find one that first of all has a lot of users/owners extant, and secondly gets at least above-average marks. then I look for the DOA's etc. It seems to me that the incidence of outright failures within a short period is a good bit higher than, say, 2 years ago.
even the much-marketed "uber reliable" 'Red' drives that seem to have sold well have, to my thinking, an unacceptably high rate of negative feedback.
has something happened in the industry that manufacturers are now accepting a higher sample fallout rate than previous?
also 2.5"'s seem a little worse than 3.5's, and I don't recall that being the case a few years back.
If you've been through this exercise and picked a winner, pls let me know what that drive is?