After half a year of collecting hardware fot my DIY NAS I'm finally about to finish the build. The last purchase I have to make are the HDDs. I'm looking for two 10-14 Tb CMR drives which will work in a ZFS mirror. I'm going to buy new units.
What's kind of special in my use case is that the NAS will be off for most of the time (because reasons) so the drives will be used more like they were in a PC than a NAS. Let's say they will be spined up/spooled down 365 times a year (in reality it'll be half of that).
Also regarding my experience with brands... the only HDDs that ever failed me with data loss were Seagates (7200 Barracudas) so it's kind hardcoded in my mind to avoid them.
Right now I'm on WD Reds and while they work OK, they're from a batch that was supposed to be CMR but turned out to be SMR. Nothing bad happened but I felt kind of cheated by WD since I didn't get what I paid for.
I'm not excluding neither Seagate nor WD, just saying I have bad experiences with them.
Is there any brand/particular model which will fit in my use case?