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?
NAS drives should have shorter recovery times with bad sectors so that the raid array doesn’t completely kick the drive out, and have more vibration tolerance since they’re supposed to be in an enclosure with multiple drives.