I have had a particular WD hard drive for 8 years now which has been under fairly heavy usage for most of that time and only recently has it started firing warning shots by spinning down when it gets too hot. If a hard drive is going to fail it should do so with kindness by giving you some cautionary advice, and that's just what WD appears to do.
Having said that, like most people here I don't have any particularly bad experiences with any other hard disk vendor.
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