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Oof, it's a Seagate. Just make sure you backup your important files!
Regardless of the brand or age, backup is a given part of the process.
All drives fail.
I've had probably 2 dozen spinning HDDs over the last 25 or so years. I've only had 2 drive failures, both Seagate, and both less than a year outside the warranty.
Regardless of the numbers from data center reports, etc. showing how reliable they supposedly are, I'll never trust a Seagate with any of my data again.
I've had no Seagate failures in my life thus far, and I've got 5 drives from them by now. Backups aren't optional so I just trust trust the data-center numbers.
From like... A thousand years ago, but yeah 😁 backing up to a cloud, a local HDD and a portable storage device too!