text: is there anything wrong with harddrives over 200gb? we just bought a 300gb seagate internal hard drive but my dad is paranoid because he read reviews that said they fail a lot i have heard about certain manufacturers making a 250gb or whatever drive that had a high failure rate. however, the same thing happened with maxtor's 40gb drive and then there was the terrible ibm desktar (dubbed deathstar) . even then, you never know when a hard drive will fail. seagate has a 5 year warranty, so not much to worry about for a long time.