I agree with Tannin some drive manufacturers are orders on magnitude better than others. I've seen IBM drives die after a short period. I was testing some software where the system was writing about 100 files a second for 2 to 3 days. The IBM drive died and refused to pass the post test. Sun Microsystems replaced with a Seagate so far it's held up.
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