Very reliable hard drives don’t exist whatever the price. You need RAID. But, look at backblaze drive reliability statistics to identify some obvious problem drives to avoid. It would help if you said what you are trying to do with the drives, what capacity you want, etc.
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Very reliable hard drives don’t exist whatever the price. You need RAID. But, look at backblaze drive reliability statistics to identify some obvious problem drives to avoid. It would help if you said what you are trying to do with the drives, what capacity you want, etc.
I’d say that one needs backups.
After one has backups, if it’s necessary, then I’d look at RAID for reducing downtime in the event of a drive failure.
But one doesn’t want to use RAID instead of backups.
https://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-backup
No disagreement with your broader point about a single drive ultimately being bounded in the kind of reliability that it can provide, though.