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It's the one that really chews up the space on the home PC. 250 hours sounds like a lot until you start recording all the episodes of your favourite shows to watch again at your leisure.

As for the reliability, I'd expect them to be as reliable as the previous generation. I don't think the manufacturers would be dumb enough to release them if there were serious problems.

That said, no HD(or any other piece of hardware) is perfectly reliable. People need to realise and accept this and manage it using RAID/backups/mirrors, ...