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On a couple of occasions I've found a disk that 'hard' fails on internal SATA will work on an external SATA/USB adapter, at least long enough to recover most/all of the data. No idea why this should work. I still use a couple of these in my USB3 dock - they've been reformatted - but one of them has given me 3-4 years of usage. I use them for just in case and short term backups. And system imaging; in this case it doesn't matter if they fail, I can reinstall all my software from original media/downloads to a blank disk in a day.
Yes Tosh disks are OK too, for some reason they're hard to get down here, yet their SSDs are everywhere, not cheap though. But I don't think brand matters much, a low-cost Tosh will be no more reliable than a similarly priced Seagate.
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