Yeah, same. I switched to seagate after 3 WD drives failed in less then 3 years. Never had problems since.

Yeah, the amount of time you had as a student sure was amazing. These days it’s more like a few hours a month.

Probably still World of Warcraft. When I quite around 2010, I had close to 700 days /played time on my main, and another 400 days between various alts.