Yep - definitely seeing the same trend here, and I've been using HDDs since the year dot (OK, 1994). I recently sold a 1979 vintage hard-drive (all 20MB of it!), which was still working after all this time. Somewhere, I've got my very first 340MB harddrive which, I expect, would still work (if I plugged it into anything). I have, however, binned 3 multi-gigabyte 2007 or newer drives, this year alone. And I've got two in the process of failing now, one of which is only about 3 months old.