I recently had my external HDD that I kept movies on die and when I tried to have the data recovered the tech guy said that regularly accessing files on external HDD's reduced their life span. He obviously tried to upsell me an external media player.
I've never heard of this before, does regularly accessing media on standard external HD's degrade their lifespan? Is it actually better to use an external media player?
Is it an HDD or an SSD?
In any case, it will last a really long time and while more accesses may slightly degrade its lifespan, most people won't notice it. The drive dying was almost certainly bad luck. Although its important that you don't move or vibrate external HDDs too much, especially when they're spinning