Hi all. I have just found a maxtore drie going cheap at harvy norman. about 170 bucks for 500gb. I know there are bad things with these drives but I don't know what. are they prone to falier I was origionally going to go with a westerndigital or a sigate, both because I have had a wd arc whos case has died and another because my friend has a sigate which is real quiet almost non existant. I need something that will store data, its going to be a secondary backup, ie the drive will get data put on it and then after every 6 months or so I will power it on to transfer stuff over. I hope to replace the case on my primary western digital and run it into the ground. I will be a heavy user of either drive though. so they need to last a long time. OI don't mind if the case power supply or case controler goe but I want something that will not easily break with switches, etc and will stand a reasonable ammount of abuse and ware. Ok so I am not going to drop it and I will try not to take it away with me to much if at all, howeverI don't want it to die for no reason just like if I pick it off the desk and say forget to switch it off or something screwy like that not that will happen however. I know the western digital drives will power down when not in use, so something that will do that or is so quiet that I won't notice it running.
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