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Show 0 brand loyalty, buy what's proven to be stable (for your use case)
There are a few very large hosting providers that publish their drive failure rates publicly for the benefit of the community.
I use such reports when I go to purchase disks and I've never had a problem since.
BackBlaze offers them but I'm sure many others are out there as well.