Weird, on my old table PC I had an 80GB HDD, last year I added a 500GB SATA one and few months later it started failing, then broke.Edit: It did make a little mechanical noice when it suddenly stopped, and when it started again, but that was all. I did had the right settings for the PC to read the type of the new HDD correctly. Next time I'm skipping directly to the 2 TB ones.