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I've been waiting over a month for my MicroCenter to restock Western Digital 14-16 TB HDD to upgrade my NAS. I finally caved and ordered direct from Western Digital. It still took them 10 days to ship the order.
Seagate drives continue to remain in stock but i'd like to reduce my chances of premature drive failures.
Not sure I trust WD after the whole lying label NAS thing, the wiped drive accident, and more.
those are interesting links. I just went off of backblaze reports for hdd failures, and it looked like Western Digital had some of the best results
At some low-failure-rate point the risks of those 'couple of drives' you would own don't really mean much difference in irl probability of failure.
Def good info to avoid high-failure-rate drives tho.