Hard drives almost NEVER die, and if you've aleady had one new drive croak the odds of having another one die in exactly the same thing are negligable.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!! Thanks, I needed that.
My housemate got three DOAs in a row from CompUSA last year.
Heck, I've gotten entire crates of hard drives - all DOA.
Then there's the drives we've killed because the computer room was kept at 90 degrees plus for months at a time... (Union issues).
And I survived The Great DuPont Glue Debacle on the 80s... DuPont was the only manufacturer of the glue used to stick platters to the separater rings in those days. They whipped up some contaminated goo and sold it to almost all of the US drive manufacturers! You spin 'em up, and after a hundred+ hours or so the glue started sloughing flakes. Ahhh, nothing like the scream of a hard drive crashing - you can hear it clear across the machine room. It's worse than fingernails on a chalk board! Keep in mind too, back in those days, drives cost from $20,000 to $80,000! We had a dozen go bad within a month... And until they figured out it was a glue problem, Field Service was blaming us!
But closer to home... Drives *DO* go bad. SCSI drives are designed for a longer spin life than IDEs, but they're ment to be spun up/down less frequently. Between people that can't be bothered to ground themselves properly, rough handling, and daily shutdown/spinup, I'm often amazed HDs last as long as they do.
...The above is my hint reminding you to KEEP GOOD BACKUPS! :)
- Dan.
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