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6TB HGST Deskstar NAS 7200RPM 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Expired
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My sample size is 12 total. Drives that went bad were purchased at once so I probably had bad luck and got drives from bad batch. But based on that I wouldn't say that they make most reliable drives in general. I also have 16 4TB WD purple drives that are 4 years old and one of them have over 700TB total of data written (other between 100 and 500TB) and all of them are still working flawlessly without even single bad sector. So I'm just saying that you can't just say that one manufacturer makes most reliable drives in general.
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I guess my point is that hard drives may be a lot more reliable than they appear, but they need proper handling from the factory up until they are installed in the user's machine. Any rough handling could damage them.
Fortunately, if they fail, they tend to fail quickly and under warranty. In those cases, RMA for a replacement. If it becomes consistent - multiple RMAs, then there is probably a structural issue, and I would start to question the brand. But, for drives bought and installed at the same time, I think there's many external factors which may influence their reliability.
I have a HGST drive in my server right now that's been powered on for more than 3 years, and has been going strong. Previously, it was a Toshiba that died less than a year in. Before that, it was a Seagate, which lasted 4.5 years. I do feel confident about HGST, given their backblaze stats.
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