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Howcome hard drive made so bad nowaday? Since this year, I went through 3 HD already. Every time installing a new one, I keep my fingers crossed but no luck. The first one went bad around 6 or 7 months ago.

The first one, Western Digital IDE, made some clicking noise for a while before it's completely dead. I bought a Maxtor SATA and an external enclosure. It last me around a week used before it click. I called and get a seagate baracuda for replacement. This one last 3 or 4 used (3 or 4 times I turn it on) before it click. Also, when it clicks, it disconnect and unreadable from the computer and the USB error message comes up.

What did I do wrong? Most of them happend when I copy couple DVDs from one HD to another. This is my back up drive. Before I replace the drive, I copy only about 4 or 5 DVDs from it to my C: drive. Then after I installed it and made sure it works, I copied the DVDs back from C: drive to the new drive. Usually copying for several mins, clicking and turned itself off and turned back on and off and on... it keep continue doing that until I physcially turn the power off.

Anyone see anything I do wrong or it's just my bad luck? Now I need to send it in again. Does anyone in SCal have an old IDE drive laying around and have no use of it, so I can buy it off for cheap?

Thanks.