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Original post by capn_midnight we have a hardware forum now.

Indeed, topic moved.

Oh yeah, HW forum, didn't think about that. Sorry. Thanks for all the replies guys.

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Original post by daviangel p.s. raptors have 5year warranty so you'd probably upgrade before worrying about it dying.

No, they promise to REPLACE it should it die, not that it won't die in those 5 years. RAID 5 gives you most of the space of the drives, and data loss protection. I would have gone with one if I had the money to spend (But I was left buying the cheapest parts I could to squeeze as much power out of my budget at the time for a project)

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Original post by Talroth Quote: Original post by daviangel p.s. raptors have 5year warranty so you'd probably upgrade before worrying about it dying. No, they promise to REPLACE it should it die, not that it won't die in those 5 years. RAID 5 gives you most of the space of the drives, and data loss protection. I would have gone with one if I had the money to spend (But I was left buying the cheapest parts I could to squeeze as much power out of my budget at the time for a project)

Anyone who doesn't make regular backups deserves to loss their data.
I just RMA'd my 36GB raptor that ran for a good 4 years before dying.
Of course your brandnew harddrive could die tommorrow or in several years as shown by google's extensive report on harddrives they used in their servers a while back.
I'm just saying if it does die in that time period you don't get shafted completely like some harddrive makers that still sell drives with only 1 year warranty or less than 5 years. I've gotten burned several times in the past buying one of those drives and having it die usually right before the 1 year or 3 year warranty with no replacement in sight!-DOH!

After good 15 years of computer using. And probably over 15 HD's I've surprisingly never had a harddrive fail on me. I just buy a new one when I need more space, and I throw out an old one when it's capacity is too low to justify taking up a slot in my PC. I wonder, is this just a statistical anomaly or is there some reason why HD's fail on some people and not others?

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Original post by Jesper T After good 15 years of computer using. And probably over 15 HD's I've surprisingly never had a harddrive fail on me. I just buy a new one when I need more space, and I throw out an old one when it's capacity is too low to justify taking up a slot in my PC. I wonder, is this just a statistical anomaly or is there some reason why HD's fail on some people and not others?

Of 5 drives I've owned, I've had 1 fail so far. The truth is, it is random. A hard drive will fail eventually, and some people get lucky, some don't. It is like luggage and Airlines. My mother has lost her luggage EVERY time she has traveled, (about 4 or 5 times now) while I know a few people that travel at least once a month and have yet to lose their luggage.

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Original post by Talroth Quote: Original post by Jesper T After good 15 years of computer using. And probably over 15 HD's I've surprisingly never had a harddrive fail on me. I just buy a new one when I need more space, and I throw out an old one when it's capacity is too low to justify taking up a slot in my PC. I wonder, is this just a statistical anomaly or is there some reason why HD's fail on some people and not others? Of 5 drives I've owned, I've had 1 fail so far. The truth is, it is random. A hard drive will fail eventually, and some people get lucky, some don't. It is like luggage and Airlines. My mother has lost her luggage EVERY time she has traveled, (about 4 or 5 times now) while I know a few people that travel at least once a month and have yet to lose their luggage.

Actually, certain harddrive brands,which google didn't reveal, (too bad I don't know somebody that works there that knows so they could tell me what brand to avoid)
fail more than others. I hope it's not Seagate since that's all I buy nowadays except for the occasional raptor drive.
And S.M.A.R.T. doesn't always work as well as I thought it did.
Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things

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Original post by Jesper T After good 15 years of computer using. And probably over 15 HD's I've surprisingly never had a harddrive fail on me. I just buy a new one when I need more space, and I throw out an old one when it's capacity is too low to justify taking up a slot in my PC. I wonder, is this just a statistical anomaly or is there some reason why HD's fail on some people and not others?

What brand are your harddrives by chance?

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Original post by Dave I don't know how the latest athlons perform, nor the radeon, however i just upgraded to a Q6600 and 8800GTX and can highly recommend them.

I recently built a rig based on those two parts too - highly recommended from me too ;)

Seeing as the 360/PS3 are both ~6 core machines, I wouldn't buy a CPU with less than 4 cores if you want it to still be useful in 5 years time.

The Q6600 has two models though - the B3 and the G0. Both offer the same performance, but the G0 runs up to twice as cool!
It's almost impossible to find a retailer that can genuinely guarantee a G0 though, as Intel only has one order code for both versions...

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Original post by daviangel Quote: Original post by Jesper T After good 15 years of computer using. And probably over 15 HD's I've surprisingly never had a harddrive fail on me. I just buy a new one when I need more space, and I throw out an old one when it's capacity is too low to justify taking up a slot in my PC. I wonder, is this just a statistical anomaly or is there some reason why HD's fail on some people and not others? What brand are your harddrives by chance?

Mainly samsung and WD. All using IDE so far, dont know if that has something to say though.