Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:41:17 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:38:15 -0400, Flasherly
wrote:

Cut&dry for an initial sampling, unless you want $30 extra for mine
and a year less warranty. Might offhand want to stay out of the 25%
*rejection rates, even for Seagate.

WD Red 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive 5400RPM
$124.99 4,519 customer reviews
5 star 75%
4 star 12%
3 star 4%
2 star 3%
1 star 6%

https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Hard-.../dp/B00EHBERSE

4.4 out of 5 stars
8,988 4,519 customer reviews
WD Blue Price: $103.75
5 star 76%
4 star 12%
3 star 3%
2 star 2%
1 star 7%

*. . .not quite a cough. . .

8,154 3.9 out of 5 stars
5 star 61%
4 star 12%
3 star 5%
2 star 5%
1 star 17%
Seagate SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch 4TB Desktop HDD (ST4000DM000)

Well, I'd like to know more...
My observation on reading many of the reviews is that the review
posted with a particular drive, for example, isn't really about that
particular model drive at all. Sometimes this is pretty clear, but
often it seems obscured. Did you happen to notice similar instances?
IIRC, I've seen that in reviews on both Amazon and Newegg.

Both Amazon and Newegg mix up hard drive reviews like that.
And you know they're doing that on purpose.

Paul