Hard Drive Crashed - Non-Recoverable - Reasons for Crash?

Hi, My hard drive crashed this week and was not recoverable. It was running on Tiger 10.4.
I have since bought a new hard drive, maxxed out my RAM, installed Leopard, and am reinstalling all my apps. QUESTION: does anyone know the reasons that would cause a hard drive to crash?
My specific concern is that I had some kind of bug in the system. If I reinstall all my old files (primarily Word docs, mp3s, and photos) will that trigger a second crash on my NEW hard drive?

Hard drive failures are often simply random. Most times when the heads touch the platters, maybe a little bit of data is destroyed or maybe none at all. If the head crashes really hard it can do all sorts of bad things including taking out the system area (sort of the mother of all head crashes).
There are things you can do to reduce the chances of a crash. Minimize movement of the drive when it's in operation (it's generally safe to move when the heads are parked where there's no data). Some head crashes are caused by sudden environmental changes. It's important that the breather hole in the drive isn't blocked so that it can adjust to pressure changes. The heads are flying on a cushion of air, and abrupt changes in pressure can increase the chance of a head crash.
Of course the future may be in solid-state drives replacing hard drives for mobile applications. They're already highly resistant to shock and "best in class" SSDs outperform even the fastest 10,000 RPM mobile hard drives in read speeds.

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