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As I stated in your previous thread, there is literally no statistical difference between failures of the "enterprise" level drives, and "consumer" level drives. In many cases, they are identical with a slightly different firmware build, and perhaps a bit more cache.
This is from failure statistics of well over 10,000 hard drives currently running our our facility.
For really no other reason than the 5 year warranty across the board, I generally recommend Seagate. All in all though, given a large enough distribution you are really not going to see much difference in failure rates between manufacturers. However, there WILL be certain runs/models of drives that have much higher rates of failures (e.g. IBM 75GXP's, some older maxtor runs, etc.)
Good luck to ya!
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