And to answer the obvious question... One usecase where you want reliability and can't use RAID is where you are selling a product that only has physical space or money for one drive - for example a standalone CCTV storage device.
Every drive failure will lead to an unhappy customer and product return, so you really want the failure rate in the first 10 years of operation to be 1% or below. (Which none of the drives in this study can do).
Every drive failure will lead to an unhappy customer and product return, so you really want the failure rate in the first 10 years of operation to be 1% or below. (Which none of the drives in this study can do).