Not perfect based on data center use vs. sitting home use but quite telling on what drives to truly avoid…
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
Very interesting Data Sets from +Backblaze
At Backblaze we now have 34881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced. I did a blog post back in January, called “What Hard Drive Should I Buy?” It covered the reliability of …
I've had 2 of my Samsung platters die. One wasn't even even in the system until I needed it and found it dead on boot. I will not buy another Samsung platter drive again. My 6 year old WD 500 GB drive is still going strong.
I just updated one drive to a samsung SSD – its actually pretty awesome so far – I will hope they know SSD better than spinning media…