New here, and looking for input on upgrading from consumer-level DAS drives to enterprise-level drives and enclosures after losing data when a Seagate consumer drive failed.
I have about 25TB of data, always growing (enthusiast photography, large Photoshop files, giant music library, home videos, legal work documents) in an environment of two Mac computers and about a dozen desktop external drives, mostly 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hubs drives (some for redundant backups) (plus a few small portable drives that go in a safe deposit box). I use SuperDuper! to run regular backups.
Looking at enterprise-level drives for the first time for their reliability and 5-year warranty (Seagate consumer drives in U.S. have only 1-year warranties!)
Thinking of getting several Seagate Exos X18 14TB drives in sets of 3 (working drive and two backups; backups don’t need to be up and running all the time). (Also considering Ironwolf Pro.) Plus a Sabrent docking station of some sort or perhaps individual plug-in enclosures. Will also add cloud storage like Backblaze or similar.
Does this make sense for my needs? Are Exos drives too noisy for a home and/or studio environment? Open to any suggestions.
Thanks in advance for helping!