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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Survivorship bias. Obviously the ones that survived their users long enough to go to recycling would last longer than those that crap out right away and need to be replaced before the end of the life of the whole system.

I mean, obviously the whole thing is biased, if objective stats state that neither is particularly more prone to failure than the other, it's just people who used a different brand once and had it fail. Which happens sometimes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Ah I wasn't thinking about that. I got the scrappy spinny bois.

I'm fairly sure me and my friends had a bad batch of Western digitals too.