Looking at Backblaze's stats, it's true WD are a little better off, but not by a huge amount. If you care about a single drive dying, then yeah, buy WD I guess

Looking at Backblaze's stats, it's true WD are a little better off, but not by a huge amount. If you care about a single drive dying, then yeah, buy WD I guess, but at the same time, I can't imagine a sane case to rely on any single drive not failing. I'd always have redundancy if I am talking spinning disk (and of course backups regardless), because the reality is no matter who makes it, eventually it'll die, and none of them can guarantee anything.