Many drive failures are due to surface faults, and most disks are
still made in one of the Thai disk factories, so if you buy a WD and Samsung drive at a similar price at the same time there's a chance the disks will come from the same source. A disk drive's main enemy is heat - much, much more so than that old-chestnut of power up/down.
I've found the failure rate of HQ disks is a lot lower, eg none of the dozen or more WD Caviar Blacks I've bought over the last decade or so has failed, they have a 5 year warranty. The components the brand manufacturers install in their common-or-garden desk/laptops are often discontinued models of inferior quality.
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Originally Posted by ngrant
... and I set up this folder in a partition separate from the system/OS partition so I can wipe and reinstall Windows & programs and maintain my data separate and intact.
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- separate physical drives if possible, a head crash will probably trash both partitions. I installed a Toshiba 256GB 2.5" SSD a couple of months ago with a jury rigged carrier, now I have it + 2x2TB WD Blacks for internal storage.
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