As someone who helps people build computers and sells electronics, I am quite surprised to see failure rates getting into the 30% and beyond. Have not really encountered as much myself. Only drives I have dealt with on the list are some of the Seagate Barracuda's 2 TBs and WD Greens and Reds. Personally Ive never owned more then 1 Seagate Drive, almost always use WD Blacks for internal and WD externals. 1 Drive failure in over 10 years personally and that was a 6 year old drive that went into a boot loop. I do see common instances of people using Barracuda's in NAS bays and having regular drive failures when they really should be using NAS drives or at least AV drives in the case of security camera setups.
I would say if someone is using the right drive for the right applications then I wouldn't expect regular drive failure.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the class action
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