betyouaint

Until recently I had almost exclusively used Maxtor drives and in the last 15 years I've only had one failure. The failure occured around 3-4 years ago and the drive that failed seemed to have a common fault judging by the ratings on the retailer website. The drive was less than 6 months old and out of paranoia I sold the warranty replacement on ebay and purchased a Seagate drive instead.

The first drive I ever had fail on me was a WD Caviar and I've never bought another since. Since my Maxtor failure I have never bought from them again either. The Fujitsu drive in my new laptop lasted around 3 months. Seagate are yet to let me down but no doubt when they do I will either accept that all hard drives are destined to fail or seek out another manufacturer.

Another thing to consider is that failure after 5 years of heavy use is in some way more acceptable than failure within 12 months despite the fact that it may be just a devastating to you and your PC. Does this make us less likely to slag off a vendor..?