modern hard drives tend to be quite reliable for consumer purposes
Heh. I'd say the reverse: modern hard drive are not reliable enough for consumer purposes since consumers typically don't make backups and a failed hard drive is a disaster. They are sufficiently reliable for professional purposes where when a drive fails you just swap in another one and continue as before.
Their enclosures, not so much
Yeah, these are usually cheaply made. But then if an enclosure fails you just get another one and no data is lost or needs to be recovered from backups.
But then if an enclosure fails you just get another one and no data is lost or needs to be recovered from backups.
Unless the manufacturer in their infinite wisdom has enabled hardware encryption with the keys stored in the backplane.
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