I have a 250GB external Seagate that is nearing 20 years old. Even made it through a house fire. Still works just fine.
If you are a torrent user, you may find a lot of fun things on the tracker Cathode-Ray Tube.
It's sole purpose is media that is 20+ years old, and it's basically a tiny version of MySpleen - lots of old, rare, obscure, and (a recent increase in) foreign titles. They also have a LOT of WOC content - TV recorded with original commercials, which is my favorite part of it.
Less-so on magazines and print, although there is some of that on there.
No.
There are a lot of phishing attempts on social media, but this one makes literally no sense. Let's take a look simply at the one post here. u/nightmarepizzza put "aardvark."
So their name is...what? Alex? Amber? Aaron? Abraham? What exactly could ever be discerned from this? Also, we have no idea if they even took it seriously and used the letter of their REAL first name here.
If this were a scam attempt, it would be the worst fucking one imaginable.
If Handbrake didn't work, and makemkv didn't work, then there's a problem with your disc.