I rarely have problems with hard drives. I have never had a drive go bad in any of my personal machines. (must be because I back up...we all know that if you dont...it crashes. Like every customer that loses vital information and has 101 excuses for not having a back up and needs their machine right now because they had to have something done yesturday...ie... they lost their porn)

And too answer someones question, I was one of the first to buy a WD 20 gig 7200 rpm. That has to be getting close to 3 years.