<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gosub100</author><text>They had a couple bad runs a few years back. If you keep following your simple rule, you&amp;#x27;ll eventually get a bad WD and not be able to use spinning platters at all. A better simple rule would be to never skimp on buying out-of-warranty drives, as well as having a proper backup regimen. I&amp;#x27;ve had bad seagates back in ~2008 but my current nas has 5x 16T exos and they work fine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mistletoe</author><text>I always found it hilarious when they were sponsoring the datahoarder subreddit.  I’d like to meet that marketer and shake his or her hand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/</url></story>