Yeah, at the time, Seagate Expansion 1.5 TB and 4 TB drives were going bad quite a bit and WD was shipping drives with the USB-SATA non-removable, which meant that damage to the adapter would make the data unrecoverable.
The 2 TB one survived quite a bit and even when I used a bad USB C to USB A adapter and damaged the USB-SATA adapter, I could still recover data and use the drive for a few more years.
I bought a 2.
Because reviews said that that model was more reliable.
They were right. It was also one of the first drives to fail on me.
Yeah, at the time, Seagate Expansion 1.5 TB and 4 TB drives were going bad quite a bit and WD was shipping drives with the USB-SATA non-removable, which meant that damage to the adapter would make the data unrecoverable.
The 2 TB one survived quite a bit and even when I used a bad USB C to USB A adapter and damaged the USB-SATA adapter, I could still recover data and use the drive for a few more years.