I have 1 of these still in an array and my second to last one died a few weeks ago. They had high failure rates for sure but some of them held on for a good 5+

I have 1 of these still in an array and my second to last one died a few weeks ago. They had high failure rates for sure but some of them held on for a good 5+ years for me. All of these drives came from shucking and a little over a year ago I moved from Seagate externals to WD externals and my pain increased 10-fold. Not only did I have to deal with the 3.3V pin issue but I've had drives die in under a year. Since then I dropped externals for internals (and the warranty that comes with it) and I went back to Seagate (Exos). Of course now buying a hard drive is insane with the prices where they are (easily $100 over what I paid before the price spike).