Hopefully that wasn't your only copy. You can currently get a 12TB hard drive from Amazon for $90. You can probably fill that up with five generations of an entire family tree's digital memories and put it in a fire safe. For a few hundred bucks including the safe.
Not your drive, not your data.
Instead of copying my library to my shiny Boox Note Air 2 and playing with my new toy, I spent Sunday hovering over an rsync transfer, cork tapping the spindle when it started clicking and grinding after having it for less than two weeks.
I consider Seagate to be a trustworthy brand, yet the one sent to me failed within two weeks and it had no shock absorption in the device at all.
When you buy rust drives on Amazon you are rolling the dice that you're going to get a drive that's been thrown around and could fail within two weeks.
The most painful part was that those files were still "there" for 30 days before deletion. (They occupied space) but the customer support was exceptionnally unhelpful and confirmed that I could not access, restore, or backup these files in any way, shape or form (even though I'd have been willing to pay for it).
So... yes. I've got those 2TB and 5TB drives now. (Working on a documentary, so I have two copies of everything in separate locations)
I'm not having this happen again