its all about luck of the draw.


A hard drive (excluding SSD) is a mechanical component, has moving parts and is very delicate. You could have a drive that was knocked in transit etc, then your going to get a duff one.
In my time using Maxtor hard drives (before Seagate took them over) I had nothing but problems with them, even at work we kept gettign duff ones, but that was a while ago when Maxtor were on their own, now they technicaly don't exist as they are owned by Seagate down. Again thats my own expereince with them.


I have had X2 80GB Western Digital internal hard drives in RAID running my Operating system for YEARS and have been perfect. All my other internal drives are western digital and have been brilliant. All my external drives are Seagate - dont ask why just what I do :P.


IMO Seagate and Western Digital are the 2 leaders in top make hard drives, again down to personal opionion what you have had luck with and not.

Both of them make brilliant external& internaldrives, so take your pick as to which one you fancy.