I agree it's not a great article. I wonder though - is there sufficient data out there to make a good article with the same title?
Isn't that almost exactly the purpose of Backblaze's HD stats?
It's more "here's a review of what we have" and less a "here's a survey of what exists to buy", although you might be able to make some educated guesses about the latter from the former (but I would consider those low accuracy).