Quote Originally Posted by ILuvDetailing
My Seagate HD (40Gig Barracuba ATA) just died on me this morning after a little over 3 years of service... is this normal for a seagate? I'm hoping that it would last me at least 5 years. I partitioned it a couple of times, could this be the cause of its shortened lifespan? It was used before as my datadisk, after my Western Digital broke down I used this as my system disk.

Fellow Seagate users, please share your experience.
Companies often publish their defect rates per million units sold to measure their product reliability. Which means if your disk crashed on you out of 6 million disks they sold that are still running until now, then I say it's a very reliable product.

As an analogy, 6 plane crashes in a year could have killed 2,000 people. But take into account the hundreds and thousands of take-offs and landings on that same year that ferried millions of passengers, you can conclude that riding an airplane is more safe than riding a car.

Bottomline: You got the unlucky random defect on your Seagate.