It would be survivor bias if I ignored the failing disks. However, all of these are from machines which are in my family from the beginning. I don't have a prec

It would be survivor bias if I ignored the failing disks. However, all of these are from machines which are in my family from the beginning. I don't have a precise tracking of all the HDDs we ever had, but I remember maybe 4-5 of out of maybe 20 failing over the course of ~30yrs, which is not incredibly awesome, but far from ‶unheard of″.