Harmy said:

Damn! I think this super moon thing is bad for HDDs! Adywan reported a crapped out HDD like a week ago and today, my 2TB external HDD died in agony (seriously, you should have heard the noises it was making!!!) :-/ It was a backup HDD, so no important data was lost but now I don't have anything backed up :-(

I encourage you to run a badblocks endurance test on the next drive, please contact me when you get it and I'll walk you through the process. It is pretty simple and well worth it.