Seller shipped 2 defective drives, uncooperative, what do I do?

Not that it's any of your business, but...

I've bought pairs of brand new drives before that also both proved defective. What a headache getting the warranty honored on those. Most drives, if they fail, tend to fail either the first month or at the end of their design life spans. These used drives at least were tested, known to work, and still under manufacturer warranty. Why pay $100 more for new but untested drives that might be defective anyway?

And that 6tb is about 20 years of accumulated data. Been into computers since the late 1970s. Lots of personal stuff; photos, home videos, mementos of loved ones long dead. I didn't lose any data.

I do computer graphics and animation and also perform and compose music on the computer. Softsynths and virtual instruments on a DAW. A single virtual instrument can be 160 gigs or more. The files for doing a single animated movie can easily occupy many terabytes. And modern games routinely take up 20-30 gigs and more, each. Doom alone takes up 60 gigs. Computers are a far bigger part of my life than they are of yours. And computers treat me a lot better than humans do.

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