I wish they would just let it die and force the move to solid state so the price would drop to reasonable levels. Problem with mechanical, multi-TB drives is that you need to use some sort of RAID method and a second backup due to the possible loss of huge amounts of data when even a single unit fails. It’s not like the old days, the failure rate on this garbage is high... I’d say 30% after 2 yrs of service. It’s gotten so bad, I mirror all my work on hot-pluggable docks and rotate them in and out of the safe deposit box.
One issue with SSD is that even if the entire chip-manufacturing capacity of the entire world were dedicated to SSD, it would take a long time to reach the total storage capacity output of a week’s worth of spinning-rust disks.