I should hand in my geek card, this feels like something I should have known about. In my defense, though, the HD manufacturers offer little to no information a

I should hand in my geek card, this feels like something I should have known about. In my defense, though, the HD manufacturers offer little to no information about the _technical_ differences between their drive lines. All of their documentation just says, "designed for X use case". I do have backups, that's not my concern. My concern is that _when_ there is a read/write error (which are completely normal events with today's hard drive technology), the drive just gives up right away instead of making a few attempts. This could easily translate into (silently!) lost data in a single-disk scenario.