My second External for my Wii U has now died -edit- Actually all my data just vanished, save data too!

[Boberkun]

spurgeonryan said:
It took me days to re download all my stuff the last time!

So for this external I spent well over 100 dollars on a nice brand. Yet, just over a year later it now dies.

Is that it? They only last a year?

I'm using old 1.5 Tb WD for Wii U, works fine at this moment.