Have Seagate sorted their shit out? I have never had any other manufactures drives fail so often in the last 25 or so years. I have them a fresh chance about 10 years ago in a PS4 and guess what? It failed.

This just sounds like 44Tb of fucking about restoring data to me.

In Germany there is a saying that goes like

Seagate, oder Seagate nicht

where “Seagate” sounds like “sie geht” (“she works”; the word “hard drive disk” is femininum in German).

So it translates to “She works, or she does not work.” or “Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not work”