Do hard disc drives really fail that quickly? Say right now you buy a 500gig drive, then pop it in your computer, copy all the data, then remove it from your computer and store it in another box/container. You're telling me that in 5 years time the hard disc drive could just die?
Exactly why would anything like that happen? "Nothing" is happening to the drive, yet it is able to stuff itself up somehow.
Excuse my ignorance :)