"ScottW" wrote in message
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Quoting co-worker:

" I'm seeing my WD drives now fail at least twice as frequently as they
used to...I only buy them when they're free or close to it. Seagates
seem to be the next drives I'll be buying in mass "

My usage is about equally distributed between Maxtor, Hitachi (ex-IBM) and
WD. They all seem to fail at the same rate.