Yes, they mention this in the article. "Failure rates with a small number of failures can be misleading. For example, the 8.65% failure rate of the Toshiba 3TB

Yes, they mention this in the article. "Failure rates with a small number of failures can be misleading. For example, the 8.65% failure rate of the Toshiba 3TB drives is based on one failure. That’s not enough data to make a decision."