I have always found the data blackblaze gathers facinating.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 10:00 PM Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

> Hopefully Seagate has stated to make better drives since all the 2,3 and
> 4TB drives I bought for various servers I put them in.  I had a 100%
> failure rate after about 2 years with Seagate drives.  I'll never buy
> them again.  Thank goodness for RAID or it would have really been a mess
> when they died.  There's a reason they are cheap.
>
> Brian
>
> On 12/3/19 6:15 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Looks like about $100/TB, which is nice but inconvenient if you need
> > 10TB. I just bought a Seagate (yeah, I know) 5GB spinner USB3 drive for
> > $100.00.
>
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