The only salvation there is if you look at the pattern of the failures. Most failures are DOAs, and of the remainder most of those fail within the first couple of weeks. It looks like if you make it through the first couple of months you're home free.

Some of the bad reviews are also related to misunderstanding, such as confusion over which drives are TLER, and apparently some of the Western Digital drives (the Advance Format drives?) are not happy in a non-Windows environment. Especially you want Vista or 7 with Advance Format.

If you do enough research, things don't look quite as grim as they seem at first glance.

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