25 in the last 10 years. Must be nice. I buy that many each year. I often buy new drives that can't detect their own errors that ZFS finds. Because a faulty dev

25 in the last 10 years. Must be nice. I buy that many each year. I often buy new drives that can't detect their own errors that ZFS finds. Because a faulty device by definition can't test itself. SMART doesn't work anymore if it ever did. Manufacturer firmware blobs have a huge incentive to report a successful test no matter what. Also as someone else mentioned, there are plenty of used drives being resold as new in the market. This industry has skated for way too long in my opinion. They benefit from a big reluctance on the part of people & companies to return faulty drives to protect sensitive company data. I have seriously considered starting an ecommerce shop that sells only hard drives. But also does backblaze like tracking / reporting of individual drives, has a good return policy and degausses returned drives. Speaking as a consumer I have zero interest in the current system, I want a system that lets me take the TCO of a drive/drive class into account before I make a purchasing decision.