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All that tells you is that Seagate drives fail more in their use case. You also need to notice that they've consistently had more Seagate drives than HGST or WD, which have lower failure rates on their data. Since they keep buying them, they must see better overall value from them.
You likely don't have that same use case, so you shouldn't necessarily copy their buying choices or knee-jerk avoid drives with higher failure rates.
What's more useful IMO is finding trends, like failure rate by drive size. 10TB drives seem to suck across the board, while 16TB drives are really reliable.
Ye, Seagate is cheap, that's the value. I've had a tonne myself and they're terrible for my use too