Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB Hard Disk

[mikeymike]

My advice is only to get the lowest size disk as possible, but making sure you'll have enough space/slack to do whatever you want to do with it.  From what I've seen, it's the disks that are "pushing the boundaries" at their time that are the most likely to fail.

[mikeymike]

And Dell replace their dead Maxtor disks with Seagates, so where do you go from there? :-)

/me waits for someone to say "and x company takes all of the others' dead disks and resells them!" :-D