I buy all of mine used from random people via ebay. I’ve had a few DOA, and a few start throwing errors after a few years. No issues getting replacements or refunds from sellers within the warranty period. Never had one outright fail, nor have I lost any data from this.

I just checked and it turns out two of my drives are over 95,000 hours, that’s nearly 11 years! And they’re still going strong with no errors!

What has that got to do with it? I’m still going to run stuff on my own hardware regardless of what AI companies are doing.

Sounds like you might just be better off using an SQL database and writing a simple frontend yourself.