>>721130496
Buy the equivalent loose drive (or shuck one of these if it's cheaper, it rarely is nowadays) and hook it up to an external SATA dock. The interface boards they stick in all external/portable drives are cancer and will genuinely fail before the drive itself does.

>seagate is shit
>wd is shit
i've only ever had 2.5" drives go bad on me and they've been from all brands (seagate, wd, buffalo, maybe even a toshiba). I've yet to have a 3.5" drive go on me (aside from an old SSHD, and it was the flash that went on that) and I torrent and dump shit on mine heavily. As long as they're properly cooled you should be fine