I'm one of those folks who see to have good luck with drive life as they either die within the first two months or last dang near forever. Today my 1st Gen Seagate 3TB drive decided to fail on me. Yes it's a 1st Gen that predates the changes Seagate made that had them failing by the dozen soon after so I'm well satisfied with how long it's lasted (10+ years). One reason I'm not upset is Backups, Backups, Backups. I have backups of all my data so although the drive failed, I haven't lost anything.