Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

[Douglas Federman]

I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and 
running Debian Linux.  Each drive started with a clicking noise, several weeks 
later read errors appeared and now completely dead.  WD replaced the first 
drive without question.  Before I replace the second, could Linux be causing 
this?  The machine is a Gateway P-II 350.