Quote Originally Posted by SquamishSerpents View Post
They fail often and when they do, data recovery is hard if not impossible.

My boyfriend has had a handful of TBs fail on him, and I've had my WD 750gig for 4 years and never even had one problem. No bad sectors, nothing! Perfect.
This is another case of having a few bad specific experiences and having it speak for something extremely general

I'm still curious what exactly do you plan on doing with this machine? It no doubt has some nice specs, but do you even need them? I ask because you might be able to sacrifice some specs to save yourself some money, or get a better user experience for the same price, something with an SSD for example. Just no reason to pay for it and not use it, thats all. Good luck!