I don't see an issue. Just make sure the *really important* stuff also exists elsewhere (like on a CD or DVD or something). The drive inside is probably a name brand of some sort...
Any electronic or computer component these days has a chance to fail. (Things would be a lot more expensive otherwise.) So the brand doesn't matter much as long as it works and is easy to use. What's important is to keep things in 2 or 3 places no matter what.
And if you really want to be safe, you can do some "burn in tests" on the hard drive. The theory is that things that break usually break quickly, so it makes sense to use the thing a lot at first to see if it'll break. There are programs out there that will do burn-in tests, copying lots of files to the drive and back, and things like that. If the drive survives that, then it's as good as any brand.
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Any electronic or computer component these days has a chance to fail. (Things would be a lot more expensive otherwise.) So the brand doesn't matter much as long as it works and is easy to use. What's important is to keep things in 2 or 3 places no matter what.
And if you really want to be safe, you can do some "burn in tests" on the hard drive. The theory is that things that break usually break quickly, so it makes sense to use the thing a lot at first to see if it'll break. There are programs out there that will do burn-in tests, copying lots of files to the drive and back, and things like that. If the drive survives that, then it's as good as any brand.
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