Looks like Seagate drives are at a very good price point for them, enough to compensate for the higher failure rates. It looks like Blackblaze managed to build

Looks like Seagate drives are at a very good price point for them, enough to compensate for the higher failure rates. It looks like Blackblaze managed to build a system with good fault tolerance, such that they can control the $-price/failure-rate ratio as they need. In summary: - HGST, good - WD, expensive (in bulk) - Seagate, we buy them despite failures