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The majority of drives die immediatly or not for many many years. Some die at all ages, but they're the exception.

The manufacturers at the time were saying: "there's no point in having an extended warranty because it's not going to fail after a year".

Which is arse. If it's not going to fail, you can have a warranty as long as you want, because it'll never get claimed against.

There's no harm in having a 3 year warranty, because your product's not going to go wrong.

If you change that wording to:
The manufacturers at the time were saying: "there's no point in having an extended warranty because if the drive is faulty it will fail within a year."
you'll see that it makes a little more logical sense. I'm sure they never expected the drives to last forever.
Mathew makes the best point- if your three year old drive fails, do you really want to replace it with a similar drive? I wouldn't.
What's that addage about memory size and cost changing? It's some 'law' named for an early computer engineer.
My $0.02 is now submitted.