Not as useful as some of their old reports. For me, the fact a certain manufacturer's 12tb model works flawlessly but a different 12tb model does not is way more alarming than whatever consistent result, good or bad. For example, Seagate model ST12000NM000J showed zero failures, but Seagate model ST12000NM0007 showed extremely high failures. That would indicate faulty manufacturing rather than anything else, and if so, it's pure luck, because you can't know in advance which model batches will work well. WD has 25% drives in their pool but aren't mentioned at all - does that mean steady rates in between zero and high? It would also be nice to normalize these errors with per-drive-model hours/months of use, although it's been shown before this has little bearing on the longevity. My view is that quarterly performance for storage means nothing, the annual and multi-annual data would be more interesting. Mrk
