[danparsonson]

The HGST Ultrastars, which were bought by WD and so now are WD Ultrastars, have a great reputation and despite being marketted as enterprise drives, are not much more expensive than consumer drives. My data point is that I've bought several of them and never had any trouble.

[mrguyorama]

>My data point is that I've bought several of them and never had any trouble.

This is, emphatically, not a good data point. You need thousands of drives running for years under normal loads to actually tease out outlier failure rates in a drive SKU. You need to literally do what Backblaze does.

[danparsonson]

I know, that's why I didn't say "you should buy these drives because I've never had any failures". I was just adding some context.