I can almost promise you my SSD will outlive your drive (especially the one with reallocated sectors already), but meh.
Either way all incoming content among knowledge and proofs they were deposed as assistance to OP who started this topic.
The unbelievers they can follow their own plan what ever this is.
What counts to me this is that the promise of
Western Digital to all of us which we invested getting hard drives for small servers, this is solid and true.
Major problem at our era this is that you do not know of whom to believe these days.
The HDD I am using now: *36578 hours used *8506 Start/Stop Count
And zero errors in everything!
This is a proof that when the platters received their final coating at the factory, the room air was better filtered from foreign objects.
And because air filtration stability at HDD manufacturing plans this is a constant factor under surveillance, the HDD they have their own (added-in) in hardware ability to deal with up to 3% of HDD sectors that they might show as unreliable in the first year of operation.
Some they have forgotten of the why after format, they do not see the entire named capacity as usable for storage even with NTFS.
Here ends the delivery of facts from my end.