Are Today’s Hard Drives Failing?

I recommend my clients upgrade equipment if older than three years. Client heed my advice an then within two years their drives fail (I always recommend Dell, just to clarify I’m not building cheap systems with bad hardware)

I also recommend Maxtor OneTouch for home based businesses for day to day backup, these drives often fail within year one.

What are your experiences? Are you finding more and more drive failures then say three years ago?

I draw correlation of this thought to manufacturers changing the warranty to just one year.

Your thoughts…