What HardDrive Do You Use?

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. 

I was using the OWC Mercury Elite Pro 4TB Dual Bay solution managed using SoftRaid set up as Raid 1+0 configuration. A couple of weeks ago the Primary drive failed. Ouch! Fortunately the Raid array saved my data on the secondary drive.

Purchased the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 (12TB). The Raid array is hardware based now which alleviates needing Raid software. Set it up in Raid 10 configuration. Could not be happier with its performance. It is quieter than the previous drives....need to place my ear next to enclosure to hear anything and just a whisper...not audible from my listening position.

Perfect solution for my system.