I bought a used Deathstar back in the day to use as a scratch disk for copying DVDs on my B&W G3. It made quite a noisy and nasty racket but kept going for a looooonnngg time.
Everything with moving parts will wear out. That said, lots of people *do* use mechanical SCSI drives still, partly for the sound. Nothing wrong with that approach so long as you keep a spare or two and have backups.
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Mechanical hard disks are pretty much a consumable.
They're sealed and aren't designed to be maintainable/repairable outside of specialized facilities like cleanrooms.
Some people are preemptively replacing their HDDs though so maybe there's some still-working ones available to buy?