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.
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.