ive never ever had even one drive..old or new tech go on the blink is i always go for small drives eg 256 or 512 ?
It's often said people can be divided into two groups: those who haven't had a drive fail and those who haven't had one fail
yet!
I think smaller drives
might be more forgiving of wear and tear, but I've certainly had drives of all sizes fail, right back from some 10MB drives in the early 80s.