Planned obsolescence:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1953639/western-digital-drives-ask-to-be-replaced-after-3-years-even-without-hardware-problems.html
Also, and this is just anecdotes, but I personally know three people who have had WD drives fail on them this year.
One of my lightning nodes is on a machine running platter drives and it serves its purpose well enough (it's not a routing node, just a wallet for bitrefill etc). I'm more comfortable with it than a raspi anyway :) but I wouldn't trust WD drives for anything important.
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