yeh no such thing as a safe harddrive, back up all the time!

Always have backups!

It's a huge differance on harddrives even from the same company, Western Digital makes cheap drives with 1 year warranty and quality drives with 5 years warranty, you usually gets what you pays for.

To eliminate a competitor, they got it at a bargain IMO

I agree. You should also shell out the extra bucks for a controller that supports RAID 5 and then replacing those hard drives usually isn't such a hassle. But still backup everything.

I had my powerbook hard drive die last week and I didnt have a backup.

I put the drive in the fridge and managed to get it working again so I could rescue my files.

I don't think that's true. Hard drives are hard drives, they have moving parts whether they be inside a PC or a Mac.

I've been using PCs alot longer than macs and have more of them. In 7 years I've had 1 drive fail in a PC, and 1 in a mac.

i just spoke with a friend and his HD in his Ibook died last week. it's all the same shit :2 cents:

so you asume a PC is dirty cheap components??

There are two types of people in this world. Those that have had a HDD fail on them, and those that WILL have a HDD fail on them. I back up to a external Lacie, and have DVDs at a friends place of essentials and also have a remote back up to a server that updates new data at 3am on a cron.

Can't be too careful.

Hope you had it backed up dude

50 dead hard drives!

:mad:

I have seagates and none have failed yet yo

is it always these external drives that die? i've never had a harddrive 'die' but i've also never used external ones.