It has happened to me twice in my office. It turns out that disks from the same batch fail together, maybe power issues or their internal firmware bugs.
The single point of failure of the drive controller and OS driver is also still there
This will show you why HGST is my only choice: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/
I recently bought a 2.5” 1TB HGST Travelstar to use as a portable drive. THE portable drive for me. Above 1TB you want a 3.5” drive...