I love how he keeps coming back to how the drives were sourced through retail channels - wtf does he think consumers get them from? I frankly don't care if one brand lasts longer when handled with white gloves, because I'm not going to be paying someone to pretend to do that for me.

Also, insisting that Backblaze has some ridiculously out-of-this-world "workload"? We're not talking a database, but an operation that is usually done with tapes. According to him, consumers must only need 4TB drives with 1000 hour MTBFs and 20TB of lifetime IOs.