Avoid Seagate Drives
I've been burned by Seagate for the last time...
I just bought a 2 TB Hitachi Deskstar drive at MicroCenter for $149. I did this after my fourth (or fifth) Seagate drive failed on me in the last year. “Hilariously” at least 2 of the seagate failed drives were back up drives. This all happened in a staggered fashion, the drives were from different lots, housed in different well ventilated seagate and non-seagate enclosures and they were not all from the “problem” drives Seagate put out a while back. Totally weird, but enough to put me in the ABS (Anything But Seagate) Camp….
Anyway, so far so good with the Hitachi, but given experiences above I only mount it once a week for backing up my samples and soundware.
I gave up on Seagate 10 years ago. I’ve had better luck with Western Digital.