[jyl]

Is it me, or are hard drives getting less reliable?

This year, I've been plagued by hard drive failures. My Toshiba Libretto drive died. My desktop PC drive died (I actually heard it fail, that was interesting). My TiVo drive died. My Apple iBook drive died (although that might have been a motherboard problem).

Is it just that I have more devices with hard drives, so there are more to fail? Or that I tend to run those devices more hours in a day? Or is HDD reliability declining?

(Grumpily packing up TiVo to send off for HDD replacement - but at least I'll get more capacity out of it - getting twin 160GB drives.)