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There's too many factors and things we have no idea about that.. We can't say anything about it.. How, what happened to them and stuff.. 3 in week? I wouldn't be surprised if they were used to mining or there was electrical failure in setup, but until we learn about causes, there's no way we will know..
I personally have Seagate as my main storage.. Am I concerned about it's state? Well it's only storage, it ain't even plugged most of time, so I'm more scared about corrosion than actual failure.. I have decade old Apollo drive filled with data. Unless there'll be anything mechanical that will damage it.. I doubt it will catch bigger issues than filesystem errors