Backblaze Cloud Storage publishes HD failure rates

They use many of 3 brands:
Most failures – Seagate
Middle – Western Digital
Best / least failures – Hitachi

Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?.

Interestingly, they use consumer grade hard disks, so the drives they use are the ones you buy.

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