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Originally Posted by AG124
That kind of failure is hard to predict, from my experience. I have an old 6 Gig in a 233 MMX that has been running fine for about 10 years, and I have seen one of my old 20 Gig drives die about 4 years. The 200 GB and 120 GB ones I am using in my main system aren't demonstrating any of problems yours have been showing, but they are relatively new. Maybe someone with more experience could give more specific information here. I myself wouldn't rely on a HDD for more than 4 or 5 years, just in case. In your case,maybe you should upgrade while you have the chance (or at least have a good backup ready - which you should always do anyway).
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The older drives had far greater tolerances. The data density was very low.
As for newer drives,
all Seagate drives come with a 5-year warranty. The
Western Digital "Raptor" drives come with a 5-year warranty. I use exclusively those two manufacturers and drives, and I have had outstanding success with them.
I boycott the Hitachi drives, and I recommend that you do as well. I have had about 6 of those drives go out on me, all right after their warranty expired. I had been using them almost exclusively, so it was to my extra-ordinary dismay when
every god damn last drive started failing on me. And it wasn't just one bad batch in the bunch -- I had different sizes, buses, versions, and cooling.