My thinking was opposite to most here, I bought 6 servos @ $3.99 each from united hobbies, they are 9g servos and have the same rates and torque as my HS65 carbonites. I have over 50 hard 3D flights and 2 crashes on these $3.99 servos with zero problems to date and can buy 8 servos for the price of 1 HS65. I just threw these servos on while I was waiting for new carbonite gears I had trashed in a crash and found these "cheap" servos as good as any I have used. So my new theory is ---- Trash the servo and save bending my expensive aluminum components, Because SOMETHING has to give in a crash, but as I said I have yet to wreck one of these servos.
just my 2 cents