Taiwan, Thailand, Tokio - same thing, right? As for the question: not yet. First, I suppose the drives I'd buy right now, especially in prebuilt computers, mig

Taiwan, Thailand, Tokio - same thing, right? As for the question: not yet. First, I suppose the drives I'd buy right now, especially in prebuilt computers, might still be antediluvian (given the latency between manufacture, assembly and retail - I'll check the S/Ns on my new computer when I get to it); second, even if they were, most of my early HD failures (two out of three - not very many data points, there) were somewhere around the 1 year mark, so this wouldn't manifest yet. So, there's a lot of variables in play here - IMNSHO saying that drives failing now are result of last October's flood would smell of the post-hoc fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc