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Originally Posted by peter taft
I have ran Seagate drives for many years.... I think it's the luck of the draw, there are good and bad in all of them.
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Probably so. Unfortunately today it' s harder than ever to be faithful to a hard drive brand, since with the recent mergers, in practice only Seagate and Western Digital remain in the consumer disk business (this and the Thailand floods having caused the current high prices).
Come to think of it, my only Seagate was a 32MB (!) ST238R RLL which worked reliably for 10 years or so.
Like others have said, backup, backup, backup. Use a secondary disk, optical media, or network backup. And enable S.M.A.R.T. monitoring in your system; it's not infallible but usually warns you well ahead of a catastrophic failure.