Annoying, best get it swapped out, only so many times it will come back to life no doubt about that!
Some will say brand is personal preference, I will take WD every single time, but only in 5 year warranty flavour, ie Blacks or Enterprise. I used to have a stack of Seagates removed from machines I had not supplied!
Value for money, extracting a drive from the WD external enclosures is my choice, but this DIY method is not for everyone, also the warranty technically becomes void and would not be 5 years regardless. Even though technically they contain '5 year' drives.
