Western Digital offers the most reliable high-capacity hard drives, with Annualized Failure Rates (ARF) of under 0.35%. Or so the latest quarterly data from Backblaze indicates. The drives include the 14 TB and 16 TB models that have been in operation for 8.537 million and 5.139 million days, respec...
I believe it. Last year was the first time since I started building systems in '94 that I bought a non-WD HD (a seagate 10tb "Enterprise".) That POS dies in less than a year. I've never had a WD go bad on me.