Would the G50 be more prone to mechanical failure?

I know the specs, and I'm just wondering if the G50 would be more prone to failure due to double hard drives, high end card, etc. due to heat?

I know it comes with a 2 year warantee, but I want to keep it longer than that.

Obviously compared to the M50, it has more moving parts and more sources of heat.

If you guys say the G50 is similar in terms of relibaility to say, the M50, I may have buy it since I can get a nice discount.

 

the only thing that wil cause it to be more capable of failure is that it has different and extra parts.
if that is your only hesitancy, i'd say get over it, and buy it. i certainly can't come up with the mathematical equation of potential failure rate but its just an extra harddrive. if you are concerned, wipe vista and reload with Raid 1 instead of 0, then if either hdd fail, you have your data.

as far as gpu, the 9700gt should be a 65nm part or less, meaning less volts and less heat likely than the 80nm 9500gs in the m50sv/ or at least a very negligible difference.

 

Not sure given the Nvidia defect news as of lately. I think the G94s are also affected as some sources say.

Other than that, it should be no different than any other manufacturer if not better. The only thing that stands out is the hard drives, which are in a stacked caddy, but even in that case if you do intend to keep it for several years, those are user replaceable and likely by then there will be larger and faster drives that you may want to upgrade to.

 

From what I've read, the 9700M GT is G96 core.