MikeB on 27 April 2008
@ jalsomni
I think brand might be your problem. IBM is OK, but not great.
Before that I had a Conner hardrive and several Seagate harddrives die on me. The IBM drive had top ratings. 2.5 inch harddrives should be relatively more reliable. There was a recent report on average harddrive reliability isn't that great for the long run.
Anway you will have to re-download everything if your harddrive fails, if you have it on disc it's much less of a hassle.
With the current state of technology I see most potential for music videos (small, only about 5 minutes max) and smaller games (often too small projects to be viable for being spread on disc and relatively small in storage size).
I love my PS3 to double as a DVR (PlayTV), but mainly for recording TV programs, content I usually would delete as soon as I watched it. Big games (above 4-5 GB) and high quality movies I greatly prefer to have on Blu-Ray disc. They take up too much storage and it's too much of a hassle if you don't have a backup on disc. Bigger harddrives would allow for more content, but if you fill it up there's also a much bigger risk / burden to retrieve this content if the harddrive fails.
With regard to DVD issues I guess you are talking about PC DVD drives, standalone dedicated DVD players are usually more sturdy. The moving parts move a lot slower. Just like Blu-Ray discs need to spin much less (due to higher density of data) to achieve similar or better results than is needed for DVD based games.
