So instead I should aim for a barracuda or a wd black or blue?

Thanks! I’ve been trying to read on people’s experiences and discussions on the topic, I don’t consider my knowledge to be extremely reliable so I wanted to hear opinions and discussions on the matter. The models I’ve been looking into say they’re 24dB and 30 dB, but I’ve read some wd red models are crazy noisy too. From reviews I could find they validated these being quiet and generally more pleasant noises but, again, I couldn’t say for certain.

I am having second thoughts on my plan, so I’ll keep listening for discussions here.

Interesting, Hadn’t really read anything like that before, since nas drives have extra features and functions that seems like a thing they would set as an extra flag or something (if it’s running on raid, then give up sooner).

What I meant by reliability was more about running the drive 24/7, as far as I could see they’re the only ones intended to be used that way (besides surveilance drives). They are intended to run at all times, spin more frequently and sustain more vibrations from nearby drives as well as heat, I feel like there’s more to it than that but can’t say myself.

Do you mean that the drive will say it’s dead if there are errors?

As far as I could find, both of the drives I’m considering are CMR, I guess for my purposes it doesn’t matter that much since I’m not going to do too much writing beyond a regular drive, as I mentioned my main reasoning was reliability and always on operation.

I intellectually understand the thing about drives dying every few years and have accepted that fact, but I can’t shake the feeling of that being wrong because I have other three regular hard drives with more than a decade of working fine.