content: I'll say this. In the past 5 years, i've dealt with a good 20 hard drive failures in my direct family and friend group. Whenever I buy a drive for someone, its always WD or an ssd. Only one of the drives i've had fail was a WD, and I don't blame it for it's failure- It was in a laptop dropped down a flight of steps when it failed. That being said, an HGST deskstar 1tb from 2009 is by far my hardest working drive, it was my primary drive for 4 years, and now serves as a video recording hard drive, and is showing no signs of failing. HGST drives are tanks.