WD is pretty reliable but I guess every drive here or there fails. I've always stuck with seagates and WDs though since they are the big brands. I had an external WD(mybook) fail on my though and the recovery price was ridiculous. It was upwards a thousand for a 250 gig drive and just didn't feel it was worth it. It caused…
there are only several brands of drives out there and all are pretty much in common use, so there's no 'one smaller' brand than another... I've gone through about 14 hard drives in the last 10 years, most thankfully retire after long hard, reliable service, but I've had drives from every make fail or go bad. maxtor was the…