To my knowledge there exists exactly one reactor in china, and this is a test project. We know very little about it. I have seen many many talks in the last 10ish years but for such a “break trough idea” very very little actual physical proof for any of the big claims.

Edit: Wikipedia article of said reactor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1

That’s also my take on the topic and that is also what backblazes data is suggesting. Would they not believe it themself then they would stop buying unreliable drives. Every brand can have outlier models that have a bad failure rate.

I use dd.

And as backblaze says themselves every time, this data is not.the complete truth either, they have large sample size but this sample size is still too small to large claims about reliability. Especially about brand reliability.

And it is heavily opinionated, without pointing out other solutions like for example the use of openvpn without mentioning wireguard even once.