Well, the newegg reviews are often useful. Sort from lowest to highest and go through all the 1 of 5 egg reviews. Ignore all the things like people sticking a PCIe card into an AGP slot because of manual and look for things like people having the same kind of failure. When the manufacturer (well, major companies such as WD, EVGA, etc.) doesn't step in to make a comment on those reviews, it's generally a hardware fault they try to sweep under the rug.

Rule of thumb for google reviews: dont read google reviews.