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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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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I've used Toshiba external drives for many years and, in fairness, this is the first drive failure I've ever had with them. I don't know that the drive is actually faulty. I'm going to try reformatting it and see what happens. Certainly I can copy files from it, but something strange has happened to my Calibre library folder on it. Obviously I have multiple redundant copies of that!