The other reply mentions backblaze. Whether you choose to use them or not their published driver statistics are quite useful: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba

The other reply mentions backblaze. Whether you choose to use them or not their published driver statistics are quite useful: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-202... A well chosen model has an AFR of well below 1%. To get about say, 100TB, you'd need a dozen drives or so with ZFS and a nice enclosure. It is unlikely even one of them will fail in a given year and you will not experience data loss. Here is a $100 case: https://ja.aliexpress.com/item/1005003125774264.html https://ja.aliexpress.com/item/1005003125774264.html Here is some YouTuber shoving 100TB into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKmZKTKXHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKmZKTKXHc