No longer able to write to hard drive

I've got a 3TB 7200 SATA 6GB/S drive, running on Mac OS 10.8.5., that has worked quite nicely until yesterday. I tried saving a file I had been working on, and I got a dialog saying I did not have permission to save, something that has never happened before. I tried several other files and the issue seems to be only with this one drive.
I checked the Get Info area, under "Sharing and Permissions, it said "You can only read," then underneath had my name and said under "Privilege" Read & Write. Unchecking the lock and trying to make changes had no effect.
Now, a day later, checking the Get Info area again, "Sharing and Permissions" says "You can read and write" again. And I am able to save a file back to the drive. The computer has been on continuously, was not shut down and restarted.
Any ideas of what might be happening? Is this drive about to fail and should I be filing a claim to replace it (less than a year old)?

Have exactly the same problem using external drive and network attached storage as now none of the artwork shows up, just the black square with the music note. I am convinced that the artwork is there as I updated my Sonos system which is directed to the NAS and all the artwork still shows up on Sonos.
Through 'finder' on the Mac I accessed the original music files stored on the Mac and have found over 100 missing cover artworks from about 4,000 tracks which were there before the itunes update. When i click on one of with the black square and music note it automatically opens itunes and still shows the 'missing art'. It might be an idea to check your original music and see if all the artwork shows.

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