VXAce
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Interesting notion which I didn't realise (the binning)...
Guess I should stop putting as much faith as I do in my two drives (one, an old WD Mybook has about 25k hours on the clock, so is probably nudging close to its MTBF anyway, albeit it still passes SMART with flying colours)
If you didn't know this is done with almost everything, from CPUs to general flash memory. The lower the price the lower the binning of the parts used in a product (generally). It isn't a perfect way of telling quality though, as a CPU that is lower binned is generally just set to a lower clock speed and you won't ever really discover the "flaw" that the manufacture found in the chip.
HDDs and SSDs are the only place the consumer should really worry about since a lower quality drive or part could cause data to be lost.
As for drives that have been tooting along for a very long time this might be a good starting point: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/