Thread: Hard Drive Failed

New to the boards. Been building my own computers for about 10-12 years now. Usually can figure out issues that pop up but this one has me stumped. About 2 weeks ago, I had a hard drive fail on me, drive will not even recognize. 1st time ever. Was sort of shocked, but didn't think much of it. Drive was a 150 GB Raptor drive, about 5 years old. I back up fairly regularly, so accepted as a loss and moved on. 2 days ago, I went back to back up some new data that I didn't have backed up yet and then my external USB HDD will not read. Now I was starting to get worried. 2 hard drives failing in a two week span? Cannot get it to read on multiply computers. Today, my c: drive stopped working again. Will not recognize at all. Same as first 150 GB, except that this is a brand new 300 GB Velociraptor drive. Not much on it aside from Windows, couple files, and a few programs. Getting really desperate and worried. I don't know where to start looking for problems. Assuming its hardware related. Any help is MUCH appreciated.

So one external (via USB) and two internals. The pattern suggest it's random and not related to any components.
It's certainly rare, but not impossible. While I have personally not seen multiple consecutive HDD failures myself yet, still young 22yrs old sesame and all, I have heard all sorts of crazy HDD failure stories so they're no surprise to me.

I owned a computer store for eight years, and I quit selling WD altogether. The failure rate was ridiculous. I actually own a Raptor X, and a Velociraptor. I had two Raptors, but one failed, and WD replaced it with the new Velociraptor. My data drives are all Seagate. With WD, what you are describing doesn't surprise me.