Secondary internal HD fails after only 1 week

I just bought and installed a Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA for the second bay of my G5 ... it worked fine for three or four days, then it discontinued making backups of my main hard drive (error -50), and now Drive Genius is telling me the S.M.A.R.T. status is "Failing". Does anyone have history with this particular model? I'm not sure if I got a bad egg or if this is typical Western Digital performance.

Whew!!!... Let me recover a moment...
I've never heard that before, I find it very hard to believe. WD is a highly recommended company on these boards. So much so that I bought two... from you know who. The Velociraptor alone should prove that claim false. This drive is fantastic and I haven't heard a peep from anyone saying the opposite and I think I would have considering the price. Overkill? Perhaps. Bad to have in a Mac? Heck no.
Seagate's a good company, always has been. But they don't have a corner on the mac market. Granted, I **** in my heart for their 15k, but at almost a grand, I think I'll hold off for awhile.
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