I believe it.
- Install Windows 11 on your old Windows 10 machine
- Discover that between the bloat, spyware, and default settings that keep resetting themselves, it's basically unusable now
- Wipe the drive and install Linux in its place
- Your system is now 3x faster than it was with Windows 10
Don’t look at Backblaze drive reports then. WD is pretty much all good, Seagate has some good models that are comparable to WD, but they have some absolutely unforgivable ones as well.
Not every Seagate drive is bad, but nearly every chronically unreliable drive in their reports is a Seagate.
Personally, I’ve managed hundreds of drives in the last couple of decades. I won’t touch Seagate anymore due to their inconsistent reliability from model to model (and when it’s bad, it’s bad).