Interesting article on Hard Drive reliability...

I'm sure you are backing up right? And I'm also sure that you are supplementing your local backup using Backblaze - our choice of online backup providers, right? (Note that if you are not doing one or both of those things, contact us so we can help you to become safely and properly backed up.) In any case, Backblaze is a cool company for many reasons, one of which is because they publicly publish interesting articles like this study on hard drive reliability. After all, they purchased 27,134 drives last year and that's a whole lot more than your friend who "knows about" these things. Spoiler alert, you get what you pay for...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/