What HardDrive Do You Use?

I use Seagate server grade drives in my NAS in a mirrored RAID config. They are quiet and very tough.

Started out using regular drives and they failed in a few months

RAID is very tough on drives, so server grade is important - according to my friends at the computer store.

Got the same RAID config drives on my photo processing machine and the are great.

Regards

I did some extensive research when I put together my DROBO and everywhere I read directed me to not very expensive Western Digital Reds. (I use the WD blacks, 10,000 rpm in my server, on a RAID array).

The computer is in the machine room here. There is no computer noise at the listening position anymore. 50 feet AES cable is the rocks.

The 1st question should be: why do you have drives in your audio room? My drives are 50 feet or more from my audio room and I don't care if they are loud or not. 

 I use a Synology 415+ NAS and keep the hard drives out of the room with my stereo. The NAS is populated with HGST drives. HGST drives have one of the lowest failure rate among high capacity hard drives. I have a Samsung solid state drive in my computer.

 I am leaning more and more toward a  network streamer and getting the (laptop) computer out of my music room. 

 I can't emphasize enough how important it is to back up your music. When I first started I ripped all my music to a Western Digital external hard drive. It died and I lost everything. I ended up re-ripping everything. I now not only have my NAS mirrored but I also have everything backed up off site.