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The 80gb drive that just failed inside my Mac Mini was a seagate...


Yeah, that's a downside, for sure. I've had a a few seagates die in prior years, all the way back to the 40MB "sticktion" drives (remember those?).

These 160GB drives are the new "perpendicular" technology ones -- so no track record one way or another to speak of yet.

Cheers