I tend to agree, the drive is likely OK. Crucial are known for making high quality products so it's probably not the drive, but since you have a replacement on the way it may not be worth disrupting the process now.
It's a generational thing it seems. I notice a lot of people today are all about streaming, as if they don't want to possess anything (that trend is similar with housing and vehicles as well, with individual ownership of both dropping in recent years). There also seems to be a lot of people who...
700 Christmas CD's is a typo, right? Seeing that number triggered me to go check my collection and I have 8 holiday CD's, which means you have almost 90x what I do?!? Maybe you need half a dozen of the B2's instead... :P
That's the same thing I do. Whether it was my albums or CD's that's how I always arranged them so when it came time for digital I just continued with what I was most familiar with.