To provide a contrarian view, I’ll reference the BackBlaze drive data… which includes mostly Enterprise drives which are also SATA drives and none are SAS drives per model number listing. Some of the BackBlaze Enterprise drives have 10^14 bit error specification, while others list 10^15…
The 10^15 spec is what a buyer should be looking for if one is going to be assembling a RAID array. I would recommend using 10^15 spec-ed drives with 4 TB to 8 TB capacity and no more than 2TB for 10^14 drives… SAS or SATA shouldn’t matter. And, of course, drives that are designed to be run 24/7 …
I thought we were going to have a HDD wiki … maybe I missed the post. Hopefully plenty of people rip apart my comments and thoughts. A good drawn out discussion makes for good learning.
Any topic can be turned into a wiki. So if you just post an initial version and perhaps mention Alexey, he can turn it into a wiki so everyone can add info.