Maxtor was the first i buy i don't remember 512mb ye what a capacity for today standards
Well wat i have 4x4 tb WD black in 2010 or so i do not remember, after 3 mounts of use in pc on off 2 ->4 time per day one failed one me
problem was the data on it was very important for me in that moment
so wat can be more easy swap the board (i do not remember if was necessary to swap the eeprom to but i did it) and the result was the same chaotic head movement, not that loud has in Maxtor drive but if you keep it in the hand you can feel it has the head hit the max and min position several times
yes nice, well recovery was very expensive so what i did was put hdd in a plastic zip bag and put in in a bowl of fridge cooled water and start the recovery process
has the water getting warmer i keep adding ice cubes recovery was 100%
after this i buy Seagate barracuda when the warranty was out same for HDD
i still have the 4x4 tb drives and are running every day in pc no bad sectors but Monday i will check smart to see the status, i did not check for 5 years or more
with first NAS sinology i buy 4 x 10 TB Seagate iron wolf was not cheep,
all 4 was bad, not detected and the very pleasant sound of the chaotic head movement hitting the max and min stop, well 3 weeks was the replacement policy, you can imagine
now i have 4x 8tb and 5x 10tb WD red, 10tb are in sinology and 4x8tb are in a QNAP TVS-471-i3-4G running Unraid
sorry for the long story, now you will say that i use the hdd in an hot or inadequate environment -> all hdd had and have cooling fan and never temp go over 48 degree Celsius