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?
If you’re using RAID for redundancy go cheap. I’ve been using renewed HGST enterprise dives from Amazon in my NAS for years and still haven’t had one fail. When one inevitably does I’ll probably just replace it with another renewed HGST.