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https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/Backblaze's numbers show that HGST continues to be the reliability champion of all of its disks in its pool. All of the service's HGST drives had failure rates of less than 2%. That result continues HGST's "most reliable" streak, a run that's extended for as long as Backblaze has been releasing data. Western Digital drives knocked Seagate's off the podium for highest failure rate overall. All told, though, drives from every vendor had a lower failure rate this quarter than in the recent past. Each company other than HGST has one disk model that stands out as particularly failure-prone.
Sadly, this does follow my own experiences with WD drives, especially the red drives.
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