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Originally Posted by Masonite
in my experience, i've had the best outcome and overall lifespan of WD hard drives over all others. there really is no end all/be all of hard disk drives... so long as there are moving parts, it WILL wear out.
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Working at a break/fix PC job for over 3 years my conclusion was WD had the lowest rate of failure. I had a drawer full of drives, mostly maxtor and seagate (dont remember exactly) but I only had one or two WD's.
I would have to also tell you to get another hard drive for files or what ever. What a lot of people dont realize is that you can really slow down the performace of your computer by using a few partitions. The drive really doesnt see too much of a difference in the way files are actually written to the drive but it does have to access different TOC's for where each partition is (at least that is my understanding). All the files actually go to the same place but the seek times for files can get slower, this is probably not too true with the speeds of new drives but was moreso with older hardware. If you have 2 drives though you will be better off.
In my last PC I had a RAID 1 config for the OS (two drives in a stripe 15,000 RPM each) and programs and files on a seperate drive, or seperate computer.
More is better
