Any sort of long term testing is like this. You can't know what the long term reliability of something is when you buy it. You can estimate from reliability of similar items made in the past, but even if you bought some of everything and kept it on the shelf for X years and then only used the best, the stuff aged on the shelf.
Reports like this might help drive planning for failures. It might also help validate your experience if you've had a bunch of failures with some model and they have too.
IIRC, there have been a couple models that seemed to hit a big bathtub curve style end of life (I think 6TB drives in particularl); that could be a pre-failure indicator for you if you have that model.
Otherwise, yeah, mostly not actionable, but very nice to see the data.
> When buying drives I just look at the sizes I need and the performance then get 1/3rd from each of the manufacturers.
This is a good plan, you should avoid most correlated failures from firmware and manufacturing (although there's a lot of shared supply chain, so you might not avoid all correlated failures if some common component was made improperly during a long enough time period that all three drive makers would be using it in your purchase).
Reports like this might help drive planning for failures. It might also help validate your experience if you've had a bunch of failures with some model and they have too.
IIRC, there have been a couple models that seemed to hit a big bathtub curve style end of life (I think 6TB drives in particularl); that could be a pre-failure indicator for you if you have that model.
Otherwise, yeah, mostly not actionable, but very nice to see the data.
> When buying drives I just look at the sizes I need and the performance then get 1/3rd from each of the manufacturers.
This is a good plan, you should avoid most correlated failures from firmware and manufacturing (although there's a lot of shared supply chain, so you might not avoid all correlated failures if some common component was made improperly during a long enough time period that all three drive makers would be using it in your purchase).