Hitachi Lappy drive...dies :(

New HP 8510W w/ one of Hitachi's 200GB 7200 drives.

I have not had good luck with lappy drives recently.
The predecessor to the HP was a Dell w/ a Toshiba drive which died for the second time and prompted the hunt for a new lappy (4yr old mch, it was due anyway.)

The RMA with Toshiba was months long and I swore I'd never get another Toshiba drive. Reading Hitachi's 'if we happen to have one to replace it with' policy doesn't give me a good feeling.

Before you all jump me about how to treat laptops, these things litteraly sit on my desk 99.9% of the time and all these deaths are just sitting on the desk. The Hitachi died last night when I took the closed and hibernated lappy off the desk, walked over to the couch, sat down, opened it and powered on, it was just finishing the login process when it tossed the first of what would be many BSODs and ended with the BIOS reporting a failed drive (after confirming memtest86 for several passes.)
I'm pretty well convinced that it's not anything I installed, because I haven't installed anything in months.


So how are you all liking Toshiba drives? Is this a fluke or should I abandon the Toshiba and get a Seagate?
I've had very good luck with Seagates in the past.
If there was something bigger avail than this I'd just go for it, but it's $180 for the same thing I have, just a different brand.

 

I think it may have been a fluke, it's not often a new Hitachi drive would fail under those conditions. I would get it replaced by Hitachi first, then decide afterwards to change to something else if it ever fails again(which I highly doubt).

Most companies would state this on their policy just to cover themselves incase they do not have the product in stock or no longer manufacture that exact drive. In those cases, most often you get something greater/better than the original RMA'd product. So I wouldn't worry about that policy too much.