I don't know what's up with new drives, they seem to be made to fail after a couple years.
Meanwhile, I have an ago old file server that we stream movies and music from here in the house, it's pretty much streaming something all night and day or else it's downloading at night when we sleep, it's never turned off.
It's been sitting in my closet for at least 10 years now, just keeps on rocking even though it gets hammered pretty much non-stop.
EDIT: freakin tabs grrr, replied to an old post