Well, I have had Maxtor, WD and Seagate drives all fail within very short times (around 3 months).
Fijitsu aren't much good either, because they failed quickly too.
Unfortunately it appears that all hard drives are faulty anyway - Both Windows and SMART do error correction (so for simple problems you dont see any read/write errors).
For example my laptop (about a month old now) has the following hard drive problems :
[ ST9100822A (3LG0VVRR) ] The columns are Threshold, value, worst, data and status.
01 Raw Read Error Rate 34 55 54 22480209 OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 0 97 96 0 OK: Always passing
04 Start/Stop Count 20 100 100 67 OK: Value is normal
05 Reallocated Sector Count 36 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 30 66 60 4423103 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 100 100 184 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 34 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 20 100 100 60 OK: Value is normal
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 100 100 60 OK: Always passing
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 98 98 5355 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 57 59 57 OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 55 54 22480209 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
C8 Write Error Rate 0 100 253 0 OK: Always passing
CA <vendor-specific> 0 100 253 0 OK: Always passing
I would like to know how they can claim reading 22Gb of data (incorrectly) is normal...
