Apple HD's don't fail to the same extent as Windows machines, one reason is that there are a lot of Windows machines built cheap using cheap components. Apple has a higher standard, and demands that of its suppliers or it won't go in an Apple computer. I was an NT and Windows admin for many years. Of course hard drives going in critical servers were higher quality than those put in desktops. But I found that many desktop machines with Windows were using inferior drives, in order to cut costs. You get what you pay for, and a lot of cheap machines have cheap components. I have had failures on Windows machines, Dell, HP, and other brands, where the hard drives crap out. Rare if ever on an Apple machine. It does happen, but rarely.
There was an instance a few years ago where Seagate drives were causing problems, and Apple did a replacement program allowing users to have the drive swapped long after warranty expired, not because a drive failed but to make sure it didn't. I did that with my son-in-law's MacBook Pro after warranty was up, free. (Those problem Seagate drives caused problems for the entire computer industry, one reason why I generally avoid Seagate.)
The components are the same, I replaced tons of Apple hard drives, all Toshiba, same ones used in Dell laptops.
They use the same parts, sure they put an apple sticker with an apple part number on it, but if you look at the oem part number, they are the same ones you can find in Dells or HPs
Apple does not have a higher standard, again, stop with the lies on here
I own an Apple Quadra 800, a 604e, a Power Mac G4 and G5, two older tower-style Mac Pro’s and a trash can Mac Pro.
THEY ALL STILL WORK!! I’ve used them HEAVILY over the past twenty years, in my profession, Publishing, for 8 to 15 hours a day, with huge filed running the Adobe/Macromedia Suite, Claris and Aldus and in all those machines, and all those years upon years of intensive computing, I’ve inly had ONE component fail...the liquid-cooled motherboard of one of my Power Macs, which they paid the local Apple vendor to overnight to me a replacement Mac, then flew a new motherboard to Medford, and they had my Mac back in three days.
They are an amazing company, at least as far as their workstations go!!
Ed