I'll try to make this as quick as possible the failures will not be in order but my machine and did happen in the last 4 years.
Laptop Dell XPS L501X- original drive replaced with larger faster one WD black 750GB, 2 years later dies, RMA replacement drive dies 1yr later.
The laptop was cared for and never dropped or mishandled, about 1 year after installing the first drive I retired the laptop to school work at a desk since the battery was shot with the occasional game at a friends house. The second drive was almost always on the desk I can only think of one time I took it somewhere.
Custom built (by me) desktop corsair 750w GOLD rated PSU, Asus z87 pro motherboard on APC UPS 1500 backup/surge- last an Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB SSD after 1.5-2 years, lost a Seagate Momentus 2.5in 500GB
Brothers custom built (by him) desktop (he didn't buy very premium parts Bronze PSU and a $50 MSI motherboard with an 8350)- 3-year-old Seagate 3.5 2TB becomes really slow even under a LiveCD boot of Linux and occasionally makes a weird sound so he replaces it. (On the live boot we copied files from is SSD to the Seagate with speeds no faster than 10MB/s, also tried NAS to HDD)
Fathers desktop (I can't remember everything but does have a GOLD rated PSU)- After 6 months Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB SSD dies.
The following computer aren't even in the same building.
Fathers desktop at work, Gateway DX4860 (on a surge protector/UPS and whatever generator the building has) - after having an SSD in his home desktop complains his work one is now too slow, so I put in a Mushkin eco2 120GB and it died after 2 years.
Family friend desktop I built- WD 1TB blue could not be recognized and was making a loud clicking noise, it was fine before they lost power during a thunderstorm, it is on a surge protector but I question whether or not it died on it own or the storm did something.
I'm trying to figure out why they are dying they aren't the cheapest drives I can find and I have some HDDs in computers from the mid-90s that still work but my current ones just don't last. So anybody have any ideas/recommendations to stop the death?
Thanks in advance.