I am currently in the process of building a small home server.
I just purchased a small (128GB) M.2 SSD as a boot drive and been wondering what kind of disks should I get for storage.
I saw a lot of discussions about various disks (HDDs) but can't really make a decision.
The main idea of the server is to store videos, pictures and to offload the data from our computers (maybe some games or other documents). The plan is to run the disks in RAID1 (I am aware of 3 2 1 rule).
Also, there is a chance that I will be running some small game servers (like terraria, minecraft, etc) on the server, maybe some websites and what not.
What kind of disks should I get? I found as much as to look for CMR drives instead of SMR.
Seagate or WD?
Skyhawk, Purple, Baraccuda, Ironwolf, does it really matter for my use case? I heard the drives can either live for a day or 10s of years, hence why I think a a cheap drive (not a NAS grade) is the way to go.
The server is not gonna be running 24/7 for years, it might be running for a couple weeks straight, maybe turn it off for a while, etc.
The budget is kinda tight, I was looking at 2TB drives to start out.
Thanks in advance.