[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.