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You just want some models, or do you have a price point that you shouldn't exceed? I always stick with Western digital for the most part, but again how much money you got will depend on the tier of drive.
I can afford enterprise-grade drives. It is rather that I have little to no clue about the reliability and failure-rates of different manufacturers/models.
And how different are these from consumer-grade ones? Is it cheaper to buy expensive drives once instead of multiple cheap ones one after another or do the quality differences not matter that much at all?
If you can get cheap ones for cheap, then get a bunch of cheap ones and just replace them when they fail. As long as you're not abusing them, they'll last plenty long.
Also, keep regular backups in case something catastrophic happens. RAID won't save you if something corrupts the whole array.