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The datasheets are public. WD and Toshiba has their own consumer hard drives. Check the Mean Time Between Failures, Read Errors per Bits Read, and Power On Hours per Year rows for them. The consumer ones usually have at most half of the values compared to the enterprise counterparts.
I have had many, many drives over the years. Seagate took a huge dive in both quality and support over a decade ago. I searched my email to find
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