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Yeah, basically, a company can easily manipulate MBTF to make their drive seem to last longer. Its not a good indication.
Shakran, thats pretty nice. At the risk of sounding like an old geezer though, I will say that I dont think they make them like they used to. It used to be that computers werent a real home appliance, and those that bought hard drives were willing to pay for good ones. Now, with everyone and their mother using computers and wanting moe space, quality has gone down. Remember recently when all of the manufacturers reduced their warrantees from three years to one?
Really the only company I would avoid is the IBM drives--they have been proven to have problems, and IBM admitted as much. Beyond that (WD, Seagate, Maxtor), they are all pretty much the same.
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