DJ-CHRIS1
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WD drives are known for their poor quality (especially when it comes to their 2.5"). Their 3.5" is a bit better, but I would still avoid them as a whole (there's a reason they're so cheap).
And it wasn't important data, just music and video. I had only had the thing for, like, 8 months. I don't expect an external harddrive to head crash after only 8 months, do you?
Western Digital drives are amazing quality, have many many in computers.
Why your drives are failing is due to old age, they don't last forever. Don't keep a hard drive for over 5 years. Most of those drives have likely reached their mean time between failure.