I’ve been buying seagate ironwolf only drives for my NAS but I’ve been wondering if it’s really worth it given that it’s a small server sitting in a corner and these drives are getting more and more expensive. What are your thoughts? Do you only go with NAS drives or anything really does the trick assuming I have a good backup strategy?
Depends how much you care about your data and what your backup plan is. Mine is unRAID with two parity drives, meaning I can lose two drives in the NAS without losing any data. Of course my house might burn down so I back up the REALLY important stuff to the cloud as well. Given this I don’t care about consumer grade SMR drives, so I buy the cheapest.