I'm sure to some extent it depends on the amount of activity on the drive. My Western Digital 60 gig crapped out before my 80 gig, but that's because it was my main drive, where I stored torrents and installed games and such.
It's why I always keep an archive drive as a secondary for music and movies I don't want to lose. Course, I don't have full anime series taking up space, but, you know. =p
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On that note, how do you tell that a drive is failing? Is it a noise or just the general activity of the drive that tells you that it's about to die?
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Yeah, you can use a utility to see how healthy it is. Personally I only had one drive fail on me, and it started making ugly clicking noises. I thought it was the CD rom screwing up at first, but then later on down the line I couldn't get windows to boot, so.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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