To add to the other comment, it's not just price but also volume. It's easy enough for me as an individual to buy 10 Toshiba HDDs... but Backblaze would like t

To add to the other comment, it's not just price but also volume. It's easy enough for me as an individual to buy 10 Toshiba HDDs... but Backblaze would like to buy them in quantities of 10k or more (if at all possible - obviously during the Thailand Drive Crisis they had to deal in small quantities). It's a lot easier to get Seagates in large volumes than some of the other brands - Toshiba specifically is problematic, iirc HGST maybe also. Also, I didn't say Seagates were always shit. But some of their models are, and they are the only brand with these issues, and it's been a repeated problem for them over the last 10 years.