From experience, I would say so. In various arrays I've worked with, the Seagates always seem to be the first to fail SMART. Also they are really noisy when com

From experience, I would say so. In various arrays I've worked with, the Seagates always seem to be the first to fail SMART. Also they are really noisy when compared to a WD or Hitachi (not really an issue in a Datacentre, but I'm long in the tooth enough to automatically associate 'noisy' with 'failing drive'). WD have been using helium for a while on their 8TB drives: http://www.wdc.com/en/8tb/Default.aspx http://www.wdc.com/en/8tb/Default.aspx And they have a specific model for Datacentres: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1670 http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1670