If you think whining in here will solve anything, go ahead. There's a difference between whining in the public and doing the same in private though. Problems are best solved using facts. Does such a post help anyone but the poster himself? If you search the web for opinions, you'll see that very few people praise any product, most just complain. That's simply how humans tick, the complainers are always the loudest. It doesn't help anyone though. You don't know whether these people lie or not. You don't know how stupid they are. You don't know how they treat their hardware. Maybe the delivery service simply dropped it? It's just noise and nothing else.
That is unless I see some technical facts like transfer rates, data from diagnose software, interrupt load during transfers, results from stress testing etc. Of course, most end-users (especially on Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X) cannot provide such data and it's impossible for them to diagnose the cause of an issue.

By the way, recently I lost a few Gigs of data too. Is the hardware at fault? Not at all, it was caused by a tiny partition overlap that went unnoticed for a long time and only caused trouble once the other partition filled up completely. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would have blaimed it on the disk especially with all this noise about "bad harddisk quality" nowadays. I never had hardware trouble with any of my harddisks, so I really wonder what others are doing with theirs. A simple explanation might be "too much heat". This could even be caused by using FAT filesystems with their inherit fragmentation issue which causes far more seeking and thus more stress for the disk than some well-designed filesystem.

Peerless, if you don't stick to your own rules, you have simply no credibility. Actually, what you write confirms again my believe that there a very few people that make good "moderators". It requires a lot of self-discipline and impartiality.

Either you're fine with not getting payment or you're not, but don't use it as an excuse to grant yourself privileges. Just listen to yourself. You start sounding like some high and mighty politician or manager.