At least it gave you warning. I woke up to the 4TB WD gold drive being a brick. Doesn’t show up on Linux or MacOS. The electronics are dead. No SMART warnings. Nothing. Don’t think I’m buying another of these things. And the price went up (of course).
I’m perfectly fine switching back to a “feature phone” aka dump phone that takes phone calls and sends texts. If it also could be used as a music/podcast playiner, that’d be great too.