Hard drive recommendation

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IsaacMM

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The last HDs I bought were 2 WD6400AAKS because they were heavily recommended, but one of them just died and I have no clue what HDs are now considered good. I am looking for decent speed coupled with good price, just like my WDs and 1TB would be preferred, although I will take less storage if there aren't any that big that have decent speed. What would you recommend?
 
Remember that any drive can die at any time regardless of the manufacturer.

At work I have 1 to 5% annual failure rate. And this is not all old drives. A lot of these are still under warranty. Some are DOA, some are 1 year .. It used to be if a drive made it 6 months then it would generally make it 3 years but I have had quite a few bad drives purchased in 2008 so that trend is over.

With that I recommend WDC black drives.

However today I have seen a video recommendation of Hitachi drives from a data recovery company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q0ocGdafAk&feature=related
 
I know my 640s have 320gb platters, are there HDs out there that have 500gb platters?
 
I have a suspicion that the new 3TB Seagate drives have 750GB platters, though I suppose it could be 5X600GB.

Dustin
 
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