[walrus01]

at a large enough scale, almost everything backblaze uses is sufficiently reliable as measured by percentage of any pool of 100 drives that fails in a year, as they have a large amount of parity / data duplication across multiple pods, hot spares, etc.

I haven't seen any drives that really stood out as terrible in their reports in the last couple of years for 12TB+ spinning disks, although the HGST product do seem to be the most reliable.

[goatcode]

The manufacturers whose drives they use provide a good basis for my consideration. I don't see certain names on their lists sometimes, so my search usually is narrowed down by that.

[walrus01]

there's literally only 3 spinning HDD manufacturers on earth now so if a name doesn't appear on their list now it's because it doesn't exist. some of the things on their list are now brands owned by a single company through consolidation.

[goatcode]

They now have a SSD report: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-...