I’ve never had the mechanical parts actually break on my HDDs. It’s the platter itself that gets fucked. And if I had another, good drive laying around… why would I want to swap the platters when I could just throw in the entire drive?
If the drive you want to put the platter in has a faster RPM… would it even work? Like would the data on the platter you’re putting in even read properly having been written by a slower spinning drive? 🤔