I Kinda Wish I Had Seen This Sooner

TL;DR: Don't buy Western Digital or Seagate hard drives.

"Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014" from the Backblaze blog

Setting up new external HDD, hope this one lasts more than 2 years, should probably just shell out for RAID/NAS next, wheeeeeeee

— Curtis 雪國列車 Chen (@sparCKL) September 5, 2014