So dumbass me a year or two ago had us splurge and buy a couple recertified Seagate Exos X16 drives for my NAS. They arrived DOA, we returned them and got replacements. One died in two weeks, and the other took until JUST NOW. We already bought a 16TB WD Red to replace the POS Seagate that died before, but with the current market ... my RAID array is in danger, and we're in a tight spot money-wise ignoring that.

WD Reds are seemingly sold out everywhere. WD Red Pros are almost sold out. It's $700 - $750 for a WD Red Pro and those are scarce. Time is ticking and I'm broke and I'm scared.

I know it doesn't sound like much, but losing all this data ... I'd be beyond devastated. Please help.

tl;dr: Got massively fucked over by Seagate recertified drives and now need an actual reliable drive FAST to fix a RAID array before I possibly lose an absolute ton of data.

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