500GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive dies?

[_bms_]

I was thinking about buying this hard drive but looked it up on newegg and a lot of people said that it died on them shortly after they bought it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136111&cm_re=500GB_Western_Digital_Caviar-_-22-136-111-_-Product . Is it true that this hard drive commonly dies? I'm wanting to buy a computer from puget, and due to there being so few hard drives to choose from, I don't really have much of a choice.

 

[sminlal]

I've been using one of those drives for a little over 2 years now and not had any problems with it.

 

[4745454b]

I've had an AAKS drive die on me. Drives die all the time.

 

[shubham1401]

I have a AAJS 250GB still going strong.

These drives don't die commonly.