Best bullet-proof drive?

Cyber-Mav · 12 Feb 2006 at 11:59

5 year warranty is damn good since you don't have to worry about pulling out more money if a drive fails.
so there is a lot of use to a 5 year warranty.

Nixeh · 13 Feb 2006 at 03:00

Yeah i think ill go seagate, ive heard a lot of good things about them

Curio · 13 Feb 2006 at 03:40

darreny said:
personally i just use an external HDD with true image, the chances of both my drives going at once are slim

Yeah, an external would be good, but seeing as I wanted to get this old machine running as a bit of a media centre as well, I thought it would be much easier/cheaper to just whack a drive in that and hook it up to the network.

LeperousDust · 13 Feb 2006 at 15:03

Cyber-Mav said:
5 year warranty is damn good since you don't have to worry about pulling out more money if a drive fails.
so there is a lot of use to a 5 year warranty.

The last thing i'd be worried about is coughing up a little bit of money if a 400GB 5year warranty drive died after 5 years. The 5 years worth of stuff i'd saved on it would hurt me much more. 5 years ago (at a guess) a 40gb hard probably cost the same as the 400gb does now, so pulling out more money in five years for the same drive wouldn't really be a problem.