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Old 9th June 2009
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No vendor preference here either, I've used a wide spectrum of the old HDD vendors.. some lasted far beyond their inteded expirartion date.

I had a Maxtor drive that was starting to fail, random bad sectors... remapping didn't seem to be working anymore.. but it was over 10 years old, it had a good life.. and it didn't just randomly die one day, so I could move things off of it.

Right now, the majority of my semi-newer (..no new systems here) have Western Digital drives.. so far I'm impressed by them.

You're pretty much on your own though, you might get a drive that's a dud... or you may get one that'll last for several decades... time will tell.
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