While this is a single comment on the 2 TB drive page (Newegg), a long time before I read what the guy said I was thinking about the same thing.First, the Samsung 1 TB drive (HD103UJ) received a high number of complaints from people stating those drives were faulty, so many critics that I decided to purchase the 750 GB model (also the 1 TB drive was expensive that time, so two enough reasons for me). Some people stated the drives worked for months before they eventually died... which is real bad when it's something unpredictable. In that case, we can't say for sure how those things are build and if they will last the same time as the old and low-capacity models. And regarding the 750 GB models, there are now more complaints than the 1 TB one. Well, I haven't seen any HDD dying yet (not even from old age), and mine are old IDE models (Samsung 160 GB and Seagate 300 GB, the first with 7 years and the second with 3 years old). So I can't say anything about younger and high-capacity drives (currently I own 2 Samsung 750 GB drives, but they are 2 months old). And my system is used 24h/day. And then, as you might probably know, the massive failure from Seagate 1.5 TB drives (and probably a plenty more from the same company, I believe they are known as 7200.11). Google did a research about this: http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-...lure-experience But what I am really concerned about is not why or how the drives might die. It's the expectations we can have with these kinds of drives. Are they really so much complex, build to have a long lifetime, or the companies are investing in something that is not meant to have that capacity? HDDs are old technology, perhaps a single drive was not supposed to have so much storage capacity, without those side effects, or at least a shorter (or probably risky?) lifetime. http://www.podnutz.com/podnutz/podnutz028 http://www.podnutz.com/podnutz/podnutz029 http://www.techpodcasts.com/computers/7858...ica-0324-hour-1 http://www.techpodcasts.com/computers/7858...ica-0324-hour-2 Interesting comments quoted from the podcast 29 (you can hear in the 30 minutes/half of the MP3 file) regarding bigger drives: My old drives: Samsung 160 GB/IDE (probably purchased 7 years ago) Seagate 300 GB/SATA (purchased in 2006) And the new 750 GB ones from Samsung: Scan errors are clean (0.0% damaged blocks) for all drives, except the 160 GB one. There's also another factor to be considered - the way Newegg ships these drives (and all products in general). Many people complained about this, and is probably another very good reason why some HDDs have a very short lifetime, dying after only a few months or weeks. My two 750 GB drives were purchased from eBay and sent from US to south america... I wonder if the post office threated them well...
