I know that you’re probably all thinking that you have the best hard drive out there and “never had any trouble with it”, and that’s great! I have been doing some side work for some people and I can honestly say that 66% of the work I do is hard drive replacement and Windows re-installation.

I remember working in a local computer shop during my youth. We used to have the odd batch that was total crap but I remember that we repaired all kinds of problems. I remember this batch of Samsung hard disks that were more likely broken then working at all. But then there were some Quantum hard disks that were ROCK solid! I know, not the Bigfoot!

It’s a bit ironic because in the past month I have had 2 of my hard disks die on me. I had a WD 500GB external drive crap out that held all my backups. I also had a 160GB in a test machine that I run sometimes when I am not in the mood for the laptop. It died just the other day.

I asked some of the guys at work and one of the gents that is in the PC Build department said that most the the rebuilds they need to do on X60 tablets are due to dead hard drives.

So our of frustration comes a post. I hope that HD manufacturers realize that most of us would like something that lasts the life of the PC instead of saving a couple of bucks. After all this isn’t a modem we are talking about… ALL OUR DATA IS ON THERE!