| Well, let's see, I bought 4 x Toshiba 5TB HDDs from Amazon. Within 3 months, 2 of them had failed (not completely dead, but reporting a high number of unrecoverable sectors). I probably just hit a bad batch. So yes, if somebody unlike me took the time to thoroughly burn-in their drives, they might well return 1 out of 10 within the 30-day period. Just blatantly dismissing another post, without providing any evidence of your own at all is just a bit douchey. At least suggest your own experiences, or even better, point to some sources or statistics to back up your point. The above is my own experiences - but as noted, I may have just hit a bad batch. If you look at BackBlaze's results: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-... You can see that some problematic drives (cough Seagate cough*) had failure rates around 20-25%... |