I got 6 WD red 3TB that all still work. They have been run 24/7 since 2012/13 They are now retired and replaced by WD red 8TB drives.

Now imagine programmers still had to optimize their code like before.

Cpu's and hdd's make it so easy to not care. A graphics driver shouldn't be 300MB. Not even with utilities. Looking at you nVidia.