A 2TB SanDisk backup drive that used to cost $150 is now $241 at Amazon.
The market for tech hardware is broken. Thanks, AI.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-2TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE61-2T00-G25/dp/B08HN37XC1
When my laptop died about a month ago, I took my daughter's "retired" 2017 HP Pavilion, dropped my dead (2017 HP Envy) laptop's hard drive into it, and that's my daily driver until this clears.
The "surviving" drive is only a couple months old. It's a SanDisk 480 GB. The 1 TB was too expensive. Hope it holds up.