I am completely impressed that hard drives work at all and a quantum leap from that considering the rate of failure is so amazingly low, especially considering the remarkable speeds and tolerances involved. I've owned many brands of hard drives even early "Doorstop/Boat Anchor drives. I recall being very excited at my first upgrade to an MFM drive, LOL.

Even the high-performance IBM Deskstar drives that caused a class action suit gave me excellent reliability and performed as advertised - fast! Most have fallen by the wayside and the two Big Dogs, WD and Seagate are some of the last few still standing. I've never been unhappy with WD but I prefer Seagate for one reason - Support.

20 years ago the only way to run a high end DAW was to use SCSI hard drives and I had 4 in a raid from Seagate. They worked extremely hard and I had a couple failures even though I was using a multi CPU SuperMicro server board with superb cooling. Seagate drop-shipped replacements to my door and I received them free of charge within just a few days. That so impressed me I have bought Seagate ever since, though I inherited a few modern WDs, which performed well. Seagate simply won me over with such an awesome safety net.