I'd recommend going for a Western Digital SE Drive, as the HDD manufacturers recently decided that people don't like long warranties* on their standard drives, and have changed the HDD warranties to 12 months from 3 year warranty.... The WD SE Drives however, have retained their 3 year warranty...
Read the Rant @ THG

Most of them kept the long warranty on their SCSI Drives, but since october, most ATA HDD's have only a 1 year warranty...

My work sells a lot of maxtor drives, and we don't see many faulty units coming back in, but I'd prefer the risk of the disk dying if I could get a replacement for 3 years.....
Not to mention that HDD manufacturers in their warranty replacement can try to retrieve data from the dead drive....


* I'd really like to know how they came to this conclusion.. with the extremely high rate of failure on Fujitsu's MPG3 model HDD's, people want their damn warranty to be as long as possible...
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