Redundancy and accessibility were my driving factors. I rip all my DVDs and Blu-Rays to my movie library and share them out to friends and family.
I've been using an array of WD Red 4TB drives for a few years, now. No complaints.
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WR Red Plus for me, it's a medium size NAS that runs in my bedroom, so they are quite quiet and easy to cool down with a low RPM quiet fan. Decent performance too.
Just a bunch of inexpensive disks
I run 4x WD Gold Datacenter Drives 8TB each WD8004FRYZ
And 2 2TB generic desktop hdds.
Serverpartdeals has manufacturer referbs of Exos 16-20TB for 200. 8TB is just too small these days, I would not start there.
WD Reds are great. I have an IronWolf Pro NAS that's amazing, and it has a 5 year warranty which is nice. It's good to look for something with a large cache if you can find it.
WD Reds in a RAIDZ2 pool on FreeBSD, serving Samba.
I’ve been using Seagate Ironwolf Pro’s but have been slowly migrating to Seagate EXO’s when upgrading.
WD Gold 10TB but I miss the HGST Ultrastar days (before WD got them) HGST added something when they took IBM's disk drive business, but something was lost when WD acquired them.
I'm a noob too, but I can tell you that you need to keep in mind the purpose of your NAS. Ask yourself this: am I storing archives that will probably not be accessed much, or am I hosting a filesharing service or streaming or something else that will need a bigger cache and more RPMs? Also try to prioritize CMR over SMR.
When I built my NAS 3 years ago I bought a used SuperMicro MB, a used Xeon CPU, used ECC RAM, and it's still going strong. My WD Gold drives were new of course, but you can find some good deals on used drives too. Just make sure that you take into account not only the hours on the drive but reads, writes, and stop/starts too. Also look at the seller's rep to see if they have a history of reprogramming the ROM to show a false SMART.
Hopefully you are using SMR ram and a ZFS filesystem. TrueNAS is a great OS that uses openZFS and RAIDZ. If you are using lower-end or used NAS drives then consider using more parity drives than if you were to use new, enterprise quality drives.