Thank you for bringing up warranty, it’s not something I thought about since I thought this was an expected failure mode. Turns out WD authorized an RMA even though I couldn’t find my receipt because it’s been less than 3 years since the ship out date from their factory and their warranty is 3 years so pretty happy with that.

Thank you!

Thank you! This is just a backup drive and I have 2 other copies if the data so ill get a new backup drive soon and all should be good. Can you think of any interesting uses for a drive like this now that I cant trust it?

Thank you! This is actually my backup drive and I have full copies of all the data on this drive on 2 other computers so what I’ll do is get a new drive soon to replace the backup drive.

What do you think I should do with this drive?

Wait Vanced still works?! I’ve been using NewPipe which wasn’t great at the beginning but much better now, though Vanced was definitely a much better experience.