Would you mind sharing what was the brand/model of the hard-drive that failed and what was its usage patterns?
It's curious because I've never had a single hard-drive failure and some of hard drives I have are roughly 10 years old, but I usually use WD brand for desktop and Fujitsu for laptops. I also have some Seagate hard-drives, but these wear out too quickly, becoming slower and noisier.
If you had problems with spinning, then data recovery would have been very expensive and require highly specialized hardware tools.
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