On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:44:22 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

Yup, buy HGST drives. And hard drives are getting more reliable.

Go off the median skew, low cost consumer Western Digital and Seagate,
and there will be added cost. Probably at "enterprise" offerings,
additionally, for such as the above, which equates to perhaps longer
warrantees than a commercially-skewed drive, whose ratings may apt
favor in-house IT reputability, over term/unit-replacement
considerations. Bottom line is still a shared gamble on failure for
either.

Also, a deal that goes down on cloud facility material demand, a bid
to manufacturing is unlikely to resemble how the manufacturer,
themself, represent their product line. Samsung and their QVO,
various EVO model offerings, for instance, are no less prone to
customized manufacturing runs -- unusual configurations resulting from
two groups of engineers getting together, Samsung's and a prospective
buyer's engineering interests, together who bid/counter-bid for
specific specifications and concessions.

I was looking at one from perhaps a laptop brand, accordingly to how
deep they want to go into stressing quality. I'd found a Samsung SSD
with an off-the-wall serial nomenclature, spares in eventually being
sold on EBAY, at some premium for Samsung quality. What they actually
were are Samsung drives that came up in excess and didn't make it into
a production run for a customer Samsung made these drives. It would
probably take a x60 magnifier after splitting that particular case to
determine where component materials were sourced for applicability
characteristics.