I've had highly divergent experience with WD drives. My home system using WD Reds has been great. It is larger than a normal home storage box (24 drives), and

I've had highly divergent experience with WD drives. My home system using WD Reds has been great. It is larger than a normal home storage box (24 drives), and it gets substantially more use than normal (backing store for a bunch of VMs, mostly). I've replaced one drive in five and a half years. Contrast with storage servers built for work with WD Golds. Those are 45 drives each and used for database backup workloads. We replace about a drive a quarter (of the 90 total), and this has been pretty consistent for a bit over two years. Not sure if I got great Reds or if Golds are just terrible, but that's what I've seen.