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Chances are your decade old USB sticks didn't go through as much read/write operations as those 3tb ssds
Maybe not. I don't mean sticks though, I mean full size mechanical external drives. Not even solid state. On my 3TB, I've probably done about 10TB of writes (video backup, transfers, etc)