> We are focusing on 4TB drives for new pods. For these, our current favorite is the Seagate Desktop HDD.15 (ST4000DM000). We’ll have to keep an eye on them, though. Historically, Seagate drives have performed well at first, and then had higher failure rates later.
I'm a little surprised that they actually did the analysis to determine the Seagates tend to fail more, yet they are still putting most (or at least, quite a bit) of their faith in those.
Based on their own data, I would likely avoid those, or at least start leaning more toward Hitachi and WD.
Or maybe the initial cost of those is so much better that it compensates for any long-term expense.