Thing is most reviews are written immediately after recieving, and I'd rather get a defective drive in the mail and just RMA it on day 1 with the confidence when I get a working drive it will last longer than to have a drive that always works flawlessly out of the box (some 3tb seagate model I know got like 4.5 stars) but usually fails in a year.

Though my current storage drive is a 3tb seagate one, that has been working fine for 2 years with no smart errors. Problem is I need to get the money to build a more appropriate backup raid for all my music / movies / games / etc, but that would be a pretty penny. I've just been using old dvd-rs (I mean, who uses those anymore?) as an impasse with anything really important on my 1TB external disks.

They have great reviews on Amazon, though.

Also, the table in the blog post says their average life is 0.5 years... Maybe I misunderstood something.