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So after reading several posts here, I learned that the original hd is not that good of quality.



Chalk that notion up to rumor and propaganda. Or maybe, "Feeling, nothing more than feelings..." <grin>

"Several" is not statistically significant.

The fact is that PGMusic is shipping only high quality japanese brand name drives - Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, etc.

Forums can be that way, you only see the posts from people having problems. That can lead you to believe all sorts of dire things. The fact is that you don't see how many people are NOT having problems for there would be no reason for them to post for help. And you can rest assured that, statistically speaking, there are far more people enjoying fine operation from their PGMusic supplied USB hard drives than those having problems. Those having problems could be having them for any number of reasons also. Shipping companies are not known for handling with a lot of care, so much so that it is a common joke, right? Then there are the statistical levels of what we engineers must label, "acceptable failure rates" for such devices. That is also statistically low. The one other thing to consider is User. That can throw all sorts of compications into the equation, many of which will and are rarely mentioned by the user with the complaint. Maybe the user has been ripping the USB out of the socket with no regard for a proper dismount. This is one of those things like Lightning Protection, you can get away without it up and until the time when Lightning does strike and then its all over.

Statistically, I know that it is a very safe bet that the number of folks experiencing hard drive failures with the PGMusic supplied USB drives has got to be a fractional percentage. And I'm not a betting man, but I'd bet the Rent Money on that one (grin).

That said, one should always back up *any* data stored on anything. That is just part and parcel of using the computer IMO.


--Mac

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