I think those drives dying quickly is actually a Good Thing™, because chances you're backing up corrupt data might become smaller… With the older drives you so

I think those drives dying quickly is actually a Good Thing™, because chances you're backing up corrupt data might become smaller… With the older drives you sometimes would have a drive die, replace it, restore your backup only to find that in the process of dying the drive was actually corrupting some of the data which went into the backups, now you've got to hunt down the last uncorrupted versions of the data in the backup…