First time a hard drive dies on me... But, wait!

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I know you may think I am lying thru my teeth but I have never had a hard drive die on me while in use. I have two externals for back up and the other day one starts to click and the icon disappears from my desktop. Can't make it return to the desktop so I figure my streak just came to an end. It's a 1TB Samsung 3.5" drive and I'm ready to pack it away but I thought I'd do an experiment. I have a NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter USB 3.0 that I haven't used and I remove the 1TB from it's case and hook everything up the NT, press the switch and it's alive! I'll buy an enclosure from our sponsor as there are a lot of wires and it's too clunky to leave in the adapter.
But my record remains unbroken!