My hard drive died, and the Apple store couldn't get it going again unless I shelled out $200-$250 for a replacement hard drive.

Got a replacement from Apple and it died in a few months

Got a replacement this year, dead a few months later

An independent repair service quoted me $200 for a replacement hard drive

Within 6 months it acted up, making me do the ridiculous R method of resetting it over and again.

I have no warrenty now, so i'm stuck trying to restore, restart, and all those other crappy "R" fixes that they have that don't work