Companies that offer cloud storage can be a great source of reliability for hard drives as they go through thousands of them. This is one such source: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
"Over the past year we’ve been releasing hard drive reliability statistics based on the drives we use to store customer data for our online backup business. As of the end of Q1 2015 we had 44,252 hard drives spinning in our datacenter. If we subtract boot drives and drive models with less than 45 drives from that total, we get 42,749 hard drives remaining spread across 21 drive models. Below are the hard drive reliability statistics for these drives for Q1 2015."
Click on the link to see the individual stats for each hard drive model. Most have low single digit failures with the exception of these (the column before last is the percentage failure):
For audio use, there is no reason to buy these high-performance drives. Get the green version of Western Digital for example. As for Seagate, boy this is shameful scores.
"Over the past year we’ve been releasing hard drive reliability statistics based on the drives we use to store customer data for our online backup business. As of the end of Q1 2015 we had 44,252 hard drives spinning in our datacenter. If we subtract boot drives and drive models with less than 45 drives from that total, we get 42,749 hard drives remaining spread across 21 drive models. Below are the hard drive reliability statistics for these drives for Q1 2015."
Click on the link to see the individual stats for each hard drive model. Most have low single digit failures with the exception of these (the column before last is the percentage failure):
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
(ST31500341AS) 1.5TB 259 5.0 31.68% 20.1% – 47.5%
Seagate Barracuda LP
(ST31500541AS) 1.5TB 1,485 5.1 12.16% 8.9% – 16.3%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14
(ST3000DM001) 3TB 485 2.4 26.65% 19.6% – 35.4%
Seagate Barracuda XT
(ST4000DX000) 4TB 175 1.9 4.62% 0.6% – 16.7%
Western Digital Red 3 TB
(WDC WD30EFRX) 3TB 1045 0.9 12.87% 8.5% – 18.7%
Western Digital 4 TB
(WDC WD40EFRX) 4TB 45 1.0 9.01% 0.2% – 50.2%
Western Digital Red 6 TB
(WDC WD60EFRX) 6TB 450 0.3 7.77% 3.4% – 15.3%
For audio use, there is no reason to buy these high-performance drives. Get the green version of Western Digital for example. As for Seagate, boy this is shameful scores.