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I want to buy a new 1tb internal hard drive because my very reliable maxtor 3.5" 350gb is running out of room, ive came close to buying the samsung spinpoint and various others (not much choices at the moment on 1tbs), but everytime i look at reviews on different sites they say contradicting things about them, one says "the Samsung spinpoint is very good and the best around I'm going to buy three of these" the other site says "they crash with the blue screen after 60 odd hours I got my money back, don't buy it", the same contradictions are happening with other hard drives , whenever I set my mind on buying a particular drive the reviews push me away,:confused: I do occasioanally ignore reviews and buy, but hard drives and the stuff in them are too precious to lose.

Any help will be very appreciated:D
Thanks in advance

[Scleros]

I use Seagate drives almost exclusively. I'm currently using a 1TB ST31000340NS in an IcyDock MB559US-1S-B external enclosure for backing up a RAID 5 array of three ST3300831AS and I have several 1TBs at customer sites in RAID and as single backup drives. No issues so far... (knocks wood)

Depending on the merits of a single drive regardless of brand to protect your data is a questionable strategy in my opinion. Investing in a RAID setup would eliminate the drive as a single point of catastrophic failure. Yes, it costs more, but I would bet money that when the day comes that a drive fails in your RAID array and you simply pop the drive out and slide a new one in without the computer skipping a beat, the additional cost will seem like pittance. (Reality check: note you need RAID controller, enclosure, driver, and operating system support for hot swap to be as seamless as I've made it out to be, but you get my drift.) At the very least buy two drives and clone a backup image with backup software like Acronis TrueImage or Future Systems Solutions Casper.