Even if they were made to work, they may still be bad in price / perf and not worth using simply due to being manufactured for a completely different purpose.

I’m surprised something like plaid even exists, i’d expect banks to cooperate with no one regarding customer data

Not every uni teaches stuff like how to study, fortunately one of them does and the lecture is on the Internet. I wish I had found this earlier. https://youtu.be/IlU-zDU6aQ0

I used another of the old HDDs sitting in my desktop, I don’t recall the brand / model

Now I have another backup

Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate: