Hard drives can fail for any of a number of reasons -- design issues, production problem -- or even an errant bump. Take the opportunity to replace the spinning drive with a 2.5" SATA SSD, which has no moving parts, and in general will be more reliable than a spinning hard drive.  
Hardware failure critical error, Error code: 2000-0151 validationcode: 114856 hard drive 1- s/n wn91yrj6, incorrect status= 32 Laptop is just 1yr 4 months old and a hard drive replacement required. Really upset  
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