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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 39156" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Rugged external hard drivesMy day job is in IT, and part of my responsibility is overseeing all my company&#039;s desktops and laptops.&nbsp; I have replaced failed drives from absolutely every manufacturer - IBM, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi, Seagate, WD, etc.&nbsp; As a company, we made the move to SSDs about 2 years ago, both for performance reasons, and also because rebuilding dead laptops was taking a big chunk of my time.&nbsp; I&#039;ve replaced one dead SSD, but other than that, there has been a huge reliability improvement from moving to SSDs, and for corporate use an 80 or 128GB drive is perfectly adequate.I don&#039;t believe the linkage between IBM&#039;s server drive technology and their workstation drive technology is as strong as you make it out to be - there are major differences between a 100% duty cycle server/SAN drive and a much lower duty cycle workstation drive.I believe Seagate and Hitachi are as good as anyone else, but the only way to keep important data on hard drives is to have multiple copies.&nbsp; As you suggest, the expected service life of any particular drive is closely related to how it has lived, and is IMO much less closely related to what brand it is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 39156, member: 162"] Re: Rugged external hard drives My day job is in IT, and part of my responsibility is overseeing all my company's desktops and laptops. I have replaced failed drives from absolutely every manufacturer - IBM, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi, Seagate, WD, etc. As a company, we made the move to SSDs about 2 years ago, both for performance reasons, and also because rebuilding dead laptops was taking a big chunk of my time. I've replaced one dead SSD, but other than that, there has been a huge reliability improvement from moving to SSDs, and for corporate use an 80 or 128GB drive is perfectly adequate. I don't believe the linkage between IBM's server drive technology and their workstation drive technology is as strong as you make it out to be - there are major differences between a 100% duty cycle server/SAN drive and a much lower duty cycle workstation drive. I believe Seagate and Hitachi are as good as anyone else, but the only way to keep important data on hard drives is to have multiple copies. As you suggest, the expected service life of any particular drive is closely related to how it has lived, and is IMO much less closely related to what brand it is. [/QUOTE]

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