No, people are Googling if Cloudflare is down because Reddit is down, and DownDetector is falsely assuming that means Cloudflare is down. A flaw in their methodology.

I also need an answer to this.

It's fine. But the whole drive can turn to dust at any time, of course.

I stopped buying cursed second-hand drives for exactly this problem.

The supply chain got you covered and will randomly hand you inofficially-refurbished drives as new ones ;)