Well I'm not that old so...
But being a hardware maniac I've had my share of HDD.
My first one was a 1 Gb HDD *about...6 years ago* aquired with a 586 computer which ran for 4 with no difficulties until the power source burned it down

. Very sad moment.
Then i got a 500 MB Samgung one which Lasted till 6 months ago when it suddently died
I leaped ahead with a 10 GB one *quantum fireball* which Lasted about 2 years until while diembeling the whole computer *like i frequestly do* i droped my toolbox right on top of the hdd... Guess that was too much for it
I currently have a IBM DEATHstar

80 GB 7200 rpm ATA 133 *which has Lasted for 2 years and still lives quite well*, one 80 Gb Maxtor 7200 rpm ATA 133 and 40 GB Maxtor the same specifications.
200 Gb of movies, games, programs
[ April 05, 2004, 16:05: Message edited by: Executron ]