I mean, the same can be said about any manufacturer

Yes but to a lesser extent.

Not any less than Toshiba, which is very quickly becoming a very enterprise-driven drive I replaced My "I can stand to lose this" array with Seagate EXOS enterprise drives that were pulls from dells with <10 hours power on time for dirt fucking cheap. Somebody dumped hundreds of them on the market at the same time around ~180 USD each so I blew my load on them. Everything I care about is on an array of HGST helium drives. I've never lost one of those, lost tons of WD and only one seagate personally edit: forgot the drive failure chart

He lost a bunch of WD. 🤔

I think the bad Seagate rep is more historic. Same for WD being reliable. 10 years ago this was true

Seagate was a complete disaster around the time that maxtor bought it, which was purely expected.

I think you have that backwards.

But did it change the outcome?