Anyone relying (only) on hdds these days is an idiot anyway.
You throw that sht on 2 cloud providers and call it a day. Like google has a policy that all that is replicated in at least 3 location. That plus say apple and a local copy and you're home free.
The shtty part is that this is mostly sync not true backup.
Drive death has been a non-issue for me thus far. The vast bulk of my data is trivially replaceable (steam etc) and the mission critical docs are stored in like 10 different places.
