They all fail. The only question is when.

I treat hard drives as disposable things that can spontaneously combust at
any time. For anything important, I use 3 drives in RAID 5 mode. I set up a
Linux server and use ext4 over mdadm RAID 5.

Seagate drives are cheap and quite fast for a large capacity. The other
brands may be more reliable on average, but they cost significantly more. I
don't need my drives to last 10 years because they'll be outdated by then.
If a drive fails, I replace it with a larger, newer one and rebuild the
RAID array. I can use the extra space for whatever I want; LVM and mdadm
make it very easy to manage volumes.
--=20
http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist
.