There was a certain line of Seagate 3TB drives that seemed particularly prone to failure, as reflected in consumer reports as well as Backblaze's statistics at

There was a certain line of Seagate 3TB drives that seemed particularly prone to failure, as reflected in consumer reports as well as Backblaze's statistics at the time: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/ Later Seagate drives don't seem to be worse than the competition, but memories of that infamous drive model still linger.