Thing is most reviews are written immediately after recieving, and I'd rather get a defective drive in the mail and just RMA it on day 1 with the confidence whe

Thing is most reviews are written immediately after recieving, and I'd rather get a defective drive in the mail and just RMA it on day 1 with the confidence when I get a working drive it will last longer than to have a drive that always works flawlessly out of the box (some 3tb seagate model I know got like 4.5 stars) but usually fails in a year. Though my current storage drive is a 3tb seagate one, that has been working fine for 2 years with no smart errors. Problem is I need to get the money to build a more appropriate backup raid for all my music / movies / games / etc, but that would be a pretty penny. I've just been using old dvd-rs (I mean, who uses those anymore?) as an impasse with anything really important on my 1TB external disks.