brand loyalty

due to the busted computer last week, i got paranoid of losing all the data in it. although some of the data have back-up copies, ive been thinking of buying an external hard disk for quite some time now. since im going to buy it eventually anyway, i told myself to buy it now. the busted computer served as the catalyst.

since ive got a lot data (more than a decade of accumulated data), i bought myself a 1 terabyte portable hard disk (i havent backed up all the data and ive managed to use 600gig of disk space. i might need to buy another one). ive been a seagate user since 1998 and so far, none has failed yet. so obviously, i already have some brand loyalty. 

my first seagate hard disk had a 2 gig capacity. it had a windows 98 OS and lasted more or less six years. the reason it crashed was because i downloaded too many songs from napster that i unknowingly filled it up to its maximum capacity. well, it didnt really become unuseable since it seems to be still working fine because i managed to retrieve the files in it. it just so happens that a 2gig hard disk in 2004 is just too small and reformatting it isnt advisable. so i upgraded to a 20 gig seagate hard disk (and a pentium 4 processor with a windows XP OS).

after more or less half a decade, i bought another seagate hard disk with a 250 gig capacity. a couple of years later, i bought a back up hard disk with a 500 gig capacity. then when i upgraded our desktop PC, i bought a 1 TB hard disk for it (with an intel core i5 processor and 64 bit windows 7 OS). and now, i bought another 1TB hard disk (out of fear of losing data). this time a portable external hard drive. hopefully, its as good as internal hard disk drives (ive read online reviews of portable hard disks and half of it arent good when it comes to reliability)

i think all of our laptops have seagate hard disks too (120gig, 500gig and 750 gig. all Lenovo. again, brand loyalty).

its difficult for me to change brands especially when i have a good personal history with it. like intel processors. well, maybe not much personal history but good marketing when it comes to processors. i mean, its not like i notice how good the processors perform compared to other processors. its just our guest speaker from intel in one of my elective class back in college gave a lecture that made me fear using AMD processors (a spontaneously combusting processor traumatized me. seriously, it did). and the fact the girls' generation endorsed the intel core processors made me buy intel core i3 and i5s. so i cant say its really because of personal history with the processor that made me keep on buying intel processors. well, the fact that it hasnt gone haywire on me makes me prefer it too over the competing brand.