Interesting read about reliability of spinning disks

[tomasz]

I know that SSDs are the thing at the moment, but for mass storage spinning rust is still the only option
This might help you decide which one to go for:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...ility-q4-2015/

[Splash]

Ah, Backblaze. The guys who keep using disks outside of their designed envelope and then pointing out that cheap drives fail sooner.

The more I look at enterprise flash and it's focus on flash the more it makes sense *in it's field*