Retina macbook pro, worst purchase experience ever

I bought my Macbook pro at the beginning of July.  Specs were 2.6ghz processor, 512 drive with 16 gb of ram.  First mac I ever purchased.  Sold my windows laptop which had similar specs and had worked a charm but the enticement of the new pro was too tempting.
It took about 3 weeks for it to reach me.. not bad...
<That is where the nightmare began.> 
Before I use a computer, before i trust it i like to stress test it.  On a PC this is easy you just run pcmark for a few days if no fail, everything is great.
On a mac you run hardware test..  Ok... so I run it.  Low and behold.. it freezes after a bit... Hmmm.. not much on the net about that... Try it again and it passed for 14 hours... ok..
That evening.. Go to use one of my hard drive..  The OS claims it failed.. Un repairable, copy what files you can... But.. 50% of the files are missing.
Ok.. well Im in good shape.  I run 4 hard drives one is a raid 1 array.  90% of my files were backed up.
<This is where the monster comes in>
Suspicious I take my mac in to be looked at by a genius.  The genius is astute and says.. well It passes all our tests if this keeps occuring we will replace it since it is brand new.
I go home..  And start using it... It eats another hard drive and fails the hardware test again.  Ok.. I still have my raid array. I call them.  Please replace this POS.  Sure they say.. no problem its just going to take three weeks...
Three weeks.. But I work with my computer it is my life line..  Well it seems to work fine except it has assainated another hard drive.. But it couldnt take down the raid.. It tried, but the raid rebuilt itself.  Safe.. I thought. 
Fast forward one day.  It killed my raid disk,
This computer, this peice of aluminum garbage is toxic.  It is trying to destroy my life and I have to life with this thing for 3 weeks while I try desperately to juggle my hard drives reformatting and only leaving one online in hopes it will last a day, maybe two.
This computer is ruining my life..  Time to order a new one from the mac store?  7 days..  Time for me who waited a month only to get a destructive non-functional tool?  3 weeks.
Thank you apple for ruining my life with your assembled in china non-QC controlled data assassin. 

There are some good points here.. thank you for the assessments ha ha...
Unfortunately I cannot go back to a Windows PC.  It was a long drawn out decision to go to Mac and the reason why was.. Efficency.  Even with lesser hardware the Mac offeres a smoother operator experience.  And once you learn to navigate it it is quite user friendly.
It is true I am a Mac newbie but by no means am I a computer newbie.  Macs have a huge amount in common with a windows PC and any/all operations I do I researched first.  So - yes my initial drives were NTFS, but I installed an appropriate third party plug in to allow my Mac to read them, I then formatted the Raid array to a nonencrypted Journal format and one external to exfat just in case.
It is not a problem with mountain lion or mac usage.  This notebook is a destroyer.  A informational anarchist, firebombing storehouses of information.  It kills drives swiftly and efficiently and if you try to repair them it garbles them.
One poster mentioned it was sheer folly to switch over to a new computer system without keeping my old one as backup.  This seems par for the course because you shodl always have a back up however there were two reasons I did not do so
1) I got a good offer on my PC, tech changes so quick that the value drops monthly, not annually, to wait was to lose money and the macbook was expensive so wanted to cover some of the cost
2) I have NEVER had this computing experience before.  I have had computers that acted funny, blue screened or otherwise failed and there was always the potential that such could corrupt a hardrive or a portion of the data if it was writing to the drive but I coudl not anticiapte actually been locked in a room with a cat that almost seems intent on eviscerating my data.  The experience feels like I am literally under assualt.  I also would not have expected that Apple, having shipped me a dysfunctional unit (Don't they run hardware test before shipping?  Seems criminal to have this kind of QC failure) would make me wait three weeks to replace it.  How is that justified when they ship new units in 1 week?  I foudn the same experience previaled when I ordered my Macbook, because I ordered it earlier and they later updated shipping dates to 1-2 weeks form 3-4 weeks people who ordered after me were getting their computers before me even though I paid for priority shipping.  It seems to me that their policies are more bent on making new customers happy rather then ensuring people who already purchased are happy.
That said with "generic" mac items its being great.  My service with iphones and ipads have been excellent when they can just substituted things.  It seems to be the customization process that causes the difficulties.

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