My HDD failed

[Guzara]

I bought Toshiba now 3 TB, it's cheaper then Seagate and WD but I don't think their drives are less quality then others , but it's pain in the ass to copy around 1TB back to new HDD over network, I backed up on NAS.

I will need several days.

Good news s that old drive is dying , it clicks but it's detected on older motherboard with old BIOS. I might backup some recent files.

Do not store on cheap DVDs / CDs , during the years discs will become unreadable.

[Mudofale]

I bought Toshiba now 3 TB, it's cheaper then Seagate and WD but I don't think their drives are less quality then others , but it's pain in the ass to copy around 1TB back to new HDD over network, I backed up on NAS.

There's a website to compare harddrive quality vs. pricing. It's what I use when looking for new parts such as GPU, CPU, etc. (hxxp://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/). I could have sworn it had a section on failure rate, but I guess I was wrong.