I must have never had a "conservative, desktop environment" at home then. I have gone through well over 200-250 drives in the past 20 years at home. Come to think of it maybe even more as the 4GB drives back in the late 80's I had a good 30 of those, and the 96MB drives from the early 80's I had bunches of those boat anchors. Then went to the 18's, 36's, 72's, then jumped to pata then sata drives.

Suffice it to say two items: you are probably correct that I am probably not typical of a home user, but there are probably others who are digital pack-rats on these forums. and two the documents show the statistical error/failure issues on drives (and barring a similar study for home-only drives to contradict due to environmental reasons all we can do is take this as indicative of the base drive failure rates) which would apply equally to the enterprise and homes.