Manage to swap my 4 month old 1/2 dying WD green drive for a new one at MSY.
Whole process went much smoother than I originally thought, after all the "MSY refund horror stories" I kept on hearing, got me all prepared for the possibility of a lengthy argument for nothing.
Just walked in with the drive, told them the problem & they just offered to replace it on the spot without even bother to test it or anything.
Now I just need to buy some external drives to back up my 1.5 TB anime collection.