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For those few (if any) missing your favorite misanthropic rodentium, he will be gone till he fixes or replaces his hard drive and can cease using livedisks.
The rest of you are safe until then.

In that case, we need to start a wiki, if we stand any chance of compiling a report on recent advances for when he returns

WD Blacks are good.

If you've had problems in the past, I would look at possible external factors resulting in drive death. Also, if you want reliability, I recommend Hitachi drives in general.

Hitachi? As in Hitachi "DeskStar" aka "DeathStar" aka famously unreliable hard drives that were responsible for, among other things, the mass-failure of Apple Time Capsules a little while ago?

Stay away from Hitachi and especially Maxtor. If a system builder, for laptops for example, even offers these I immediately find a different vendor.

As of the last two years, yes. Of the dozens of drives I've seen fail over the last few years, only one was a Hitachi, and that because somebody dropped their external enclosure five feet. Yes, they have a poor history, but their last two iterations at least have been quite reliable while keeping performance competitive. A year is an age in the industry, and things change quickly.

Maxtor's merger with Seagate marked a step downward slope in quality for the latter company, in my opinion.

Seagate's 700.11 (or similar, it ends in "11" anyway) series is like that. Crappy, unreliable. Their xxx.12 series however seems to be much better.

I still recommend the Blacks though, since they're about the fastest conventional hard drives around, WD has a reasonably good reputation, and while you can go faster with a Velociraptor, you lose capacity and the price goes much too high for what you're getting.

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Way to drop the ball on that set.

Misread title, thought it was gonna be about High definition fisting

Disappointment

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