As a matter of fact, due to your previous post about Seagate drives, I took advantage of the sale and now carry around my own TB hard drive with all my data on it. My computer is much happier now. :) Still, that's really cool that they managed to get data off that drive!

The main reasons I've been so stunningly pro-Seagate:

1) In enterprise IT departments I've worked in or known people from, if someone cares about drive brand, 9/10 times they'll favor Seagate over the rest. IT departments deal with A LOT of drives.

2) ~70% of the "spectacular data recovery" stories I've heard have involved Seagates.

So it's not so much that I'm claiming they never fail - in fact, I've had one (9 year old scsi) fail on me even, as well as a DOA once. It's about their integrity, support, warranty, and ability to have strong recovery chances if the data's vital enough that you're willing to pay for recovery procedures.

I second you on the Segate drive thing. I'd rather pay more for less space on a Seagate than pay less for more space on a WD. That said, though, I have both in my machine right now. And a Seagate of mine did recently bite it after many years of service.

I get my seagates on sale so they're the same price as the WD&cs. They usually go on sale at least a couple times a year, and I plan "waiting for the sale" into my disk schedule.