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I use 2 Seagates on my system and have not had issues in 5 years (dating the longest continuous-use one). My system is on 24-7 so that is a long time between failures
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Its because your system is on 24-7 that they lasted so well its the warming up and cooling down that breaks things... Same as the gas in a lightbulb if you switch it off and on it will drasticly shorten its life...
If you ever noticed its very rare that a drive that is going to break mechcanicly ever does so when its on ! always when you come to power it back up ......(same rule dont apply to crc's, part tables etc, Thats down to other causes)
Like I say not all would agree with me lol.... But I may add I have a seagate that is 8gig and probably around 5 yr old as well (its the one with the little rubber jacket on remember those?) and thats still working fine where as its former exactly the same lasted only 8 months /shrug
