Doing a checkup on a new USB HDD that's suspiciously cheap
Here is the software I used, you'll easily find a alternatives for those if you use MacOS or Linux instead of Windows 10.
Disk surface scan was done using https://easeus.in/epm-free
SMART attributes check was done in https://crystalmark.info/en/download/
I was impressed with stats of my old drive mostly because of the conditions it was in - it's from 2010 laptop and had A LOT of power cuts and had a hard life in physical wear sense.