Was not surprised to see Seagate leading the failure rate. Had a portable 2TB seagate drive fail within weeks. There goes my vacation photos and videos!
I wish backblaze would share some data around accelerated lifecycle testing.
Never again.
In all seriousness though, I use backblaze and while I haven't had any HDD failures I have gone back to check on the backup from time to time and it's always looking good.
My photos are a) still on my sd card until it's full, b) on my raidz1 and raidz2 drives on my nas, c) backed up to flickr, free 1TB storage using https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr
Having only 1 copy of something that's easy to perfectly replicate is very silly.
Portable means the storage has a compact form factor and a case so you can carry it around (turned off). I have never seen anyone actually use a portable disk while moving. Everyone puts them on their desk next to the laptop. The only thing I can imagine is working on a train.
Good thing SSDs exist now.