Backblaze, which is a cloud storage/backup provider, publishes drive failure statistics for their roughly 160,000 drives. They mostly use fairly large drives (lots of 12-16 TB) from a few different manufacturers (including lots of Seagate drives). Their stats may or may not be of use to you when selecting new drive(s), but it’s interesting to see anyways. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html#quarterly-stats-blog-...

On Mar 7, 2021, at 6:29 PM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

 Hi,

2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly soon. I haven't bought a harddisk for a long time. Has Seagate improved their quality? Or, should I go with Western Digital as I usually do? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 06:28:47PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote:

2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly soon.  I haven't bought a harddisk for a long time.  Has Seagate improved their quality?  Or, should I go with Western Digital as I usually do?

I am certainly sticking with WD, although of course be aware of WD totally botching the WD Red line by switching them to shingled drives without telling people and breaking what the entire point of that model line was (being excellent in RAID systems). The original WD Red drives are now the WD Red Plus drives (same exact model number as before, new label). It would take years of no more problems before I would trust Seagate with my data. -- Len Sorensen