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IMO just get whatever the cheapest one is of those big manufacturers. You should be running some sort of redundancy for your disks anyway, and disk failures are always a gamble no matter what you do to pre-emptively stop them. Personally I buy cheap refurbished drives and throw them into my RAID with the foregone conclusion that I might need to replace them sooner than a new drive, but I'm also saving so much money by buying refurbished that replacement cost will be cheap. Check ebay or ServerPartDeals if you subscribe to this line of thinking.

Edit: This would be sort of similar to "cattle not pets", where you strategize for failure instead of trying to prevent it from failing.

Scraped Amazon data, sort and filterable: https://diskprices.com/

Backblaze posts stats regularly on their site, for example:

• https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2023/
• https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2023-mid-year-drive-stats-review/

I went with the Seagate Exos X20. That was three months ago, and so far so good. A lot of reviews said it was super noisy, but I haven’t noticed much difference between it and other hard drives. It’s a bit more noisy when it spins up, but then it’s fine.

It just sits in a server at my in laws’ house and backs up the RAID array at my house, so it’s basically always writing data, but at throttled network speeds (~2MBps).

You mean two drives right? Or are you going to risk your 20tb of data on just one?

Hgst is always my answer for quality drives, their enterprise drives are simply the best

In the USA, you can usually find Seagate Exos X20 for around $270 for 20TB, brand new. Great drives with a good warranty. See if stores in your area stock it.

I have data I don't want to miss on mirrored WD red drives. Oldest set is from '14, but are more in sleep mode then active. (Also 2TB drives, newest are 4 TB, I'm not even close to 20 TB)

Have been operating all 3. Get the cheapest you can get at the moment.

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Just one tech's opinion but I've worked in storage for almost 20years. WD Ultrastar (formerly Hitachi) has the most consistent reliability historically. The current series of WD Gold's are Ultrastar's with a different sticker and often cheaper than the Ultrastar stickered version.

They are a little more expensive than their competition but worth it.

2nd Exos, 3rd everything else.

I can't remember the last time I had one of my Ultrastar arrays having a failure. If my clients need to choose a cheaper drive on price I have tried Ironwolfs and have replaced a bunch of 10tb Ironwolfs a few 12's.

In the consumer space the Backblaze drive failure releases are good to pay attention to.

Performance wise all SoHo CMR drives are pretty similar in the 7200rpm models.

I got a bunch of the Seagate Exos x18. Greate price/TB and performance. Though they were only the 16TB SATA variant and not the SAS one.

With everyone self hosting huge servers like this, my question is.. how can I access some large ones like this? Kodi, Plex?

Ive got a pair of 12TB Seagate drives in a NAS that have been running great for a few years, now.

I've heard varying opinions on Seagate's longevity, so your mileage may vary. So far, they haven't given me any issues.

LoL I'm trying to figure this out too. I found server part deals.

But I don't have the whole setup figured out yet. I have my jellyfin media drive in just an external enclosure and is just an 8tb which is backed up (sorta not really) on a couple 4tb external drives I have that I copy stuff too and from. Don't even have a backup of my PC but that's cause it really doesn't take much to re set it back up from scratch and I have a second PC running the proxy and stuff...

I'm definitely not the best at this and just accept that I'm doing more than average and nowhere near the people who have this all figured out.