Even when they were shucking retail drives in the 1-4TB era, Seagate didn't have the greatest stats, with about a 5-30% failure rate (IIRC, over ~3 years or so)

Even when they were shucking retail drives in the 1-4TB era, Seagate didn't have the greatest stats, with about a 5-30% failure rate (IIRC, over ~3 years or so), especially their 3T drives. I ran an array with 1.5T and 3T Seagates and within a 1-3 years, I replaced at least 1/3 of my Seagates, but I made sure to replace the Seagates with Hitachis and Western Digitals, even though they were slightly more expensive.