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True that but those HDDs should be long gone by now. I've had only two WD Greens fail on me so far: the first was one of the early Greens that had the excessive head parking issue (that has long since been corrected) that never should have been installed as a sole drive by a computer shop that should have known better (one of the two the main reasons I broke down and learned how to build and maintain my own machines) and one that started showing SMART errors (over 300 reallocated sectors) before the factory warranty ran out and WD promptly replaced. Right now, I have ten Greens, four of which I bought recently and I am now "torture" testing (running multiple wipes for a about a week each drive). I use my Greens only for backups.
For my internal drives, I prefer WD Blacks. They are noticeably snappier and come with the longer warranty (five years) so are more likely to be more durable than the Greens.
I prefer to buy my Greens from NewEgg since I can buy an additional three years of "warranty" (technically, it's a service plan) for a reasonable price, giving me a full five years of warranty. Blacks I can get from Amazon or NewEgg, depending on who sells them for less but prefer Amazon because if a drive shows up DOA (considering how poorly carriers handle them, it's surprising DOAs aren't any more frequent than they already are), I don't have to pay for return shipping.