some context: i bought 2 new 16tb seagate ironwolf pro drives about a year ago for my NAS when i was building it to use for its main storage pool, had one fail on me 5 months into using it, got it RMA'd from seagate since it was under warranty, and just last night i had that exact replacement drive start to fail on me, only 10 months into using it. originally went with seagate cause i had good experiences with their drives in the past + theyre usually a bit cheaper than brands like WD, so this was a bit of a surprise to me, considering this is probably the first time ive had this bad of luck with HDDs failing on me
tl;dr: high failure rates/bad luck when buying new seagate ironwolf pro drives, not looking to buy seagate drives again
that being said: are there any brands & models that would be worth checking out instead of stuff from seagate? ive seen a lot of recommendations on here + other related subreddits saying WD Red drives are the way to go, also seen some recommendations for WD Ultrastar and Toshiba drives too, though im curious to see what others might recommend going with as replacements and why