[Discuss] Tired of unreliable external drives... recommendations?

[Tom Metro]

Richard Pieri wrote:
> Customer reviews are cumulatively skewed towards failures.
> You hear about a few dozen failures but you don't hear about the
> hundreds of thousands that don't fail.

Right, they are more useful for qualitative information. Is he product
suitable for its intended purpose, and if not, why?

For reliability what you want are the percentage of drives that the
manufacturer sees RMAed. But of course they don't publish that. Best you
can do is infer it from the warranty period, which only gives you a long
term average across a product family.

 -Tom

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