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by covercash 3747 days ago
Backblaze does a thorough hard drive reliability report, here's their latest:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-201...

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Those stats quote AFR not IMR. The OP was talking about infant mortality.
For the avoidance of doubt, I count as infant mortality when a new hard drive would drop from a hardware RAID array during initial construction of the array (we are talking about NAS drives). Not just "the drive will not start".