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https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives

Interesting point:

Backblaze’s buying practices prioritize low cost drives over any other type, and they don’t buy the enterprise drives that WD, Seagate, and other manufacturers position specifically for these kinds of deployments. Whether or not this has any impact on consumer drive failure rates isn’t known — HDD manufacturers advertise their enterprise hardware as having gone through additional validation and being designed specifically for high-vibration environments, but there are few studies on whether or not these claims result in meaningfully better performance or reliability.
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Companies like Backblaze and Google are showing how consumer grade equipment can fit into the enterprise market. When you're creating RAID arrays as big as they are the limitation is never going to be the individual drives, but the RAID controller and their throughput capacity.

There are some interesting setups at an enterprise level with companies trying to RAID across mutlipe controllers.

It seems that we're swinging back to a distributed architecture after a trend towards centralisation.
 
An interesting article, @neil_g , I've just had to scrap a couple of Samsung Spinpoints which were over 10 years old.
They don't make hardware like they used to!
 
I agree with 'em about the WD60EFRX. I've got a couple and I don't trust them at all. They won't fail sufficiently to get replaced but they keep throwing up errors. Now parked in my HDD & ODD draw waiting for I'm not sure what.
 
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