I am soured on WD due to many past drive failures, but their return process was very good.
Giving credit to 'practice makes perfect'. I too have had 2 IDE home PC drives go bad once they were installed were never moved & kept in ideal climate conditions. These failures seemed to coincide within a month of the passing of the warranty. I should note that the SMARTdrive did catch they were going bad but it was a little too late. I decided to see if I could take the drive apart and salvage the platters maybe install in another identical drive. The contact arm or head was making direct contact w/one of the platters w/the reading head laying to the side. The other platter/heads seemed fine.
The IBM drives I have have yet to fail me and the one Maxtor I have has passed all of them in performance believe it or not it's from a PC I bought in 1996.