[kwlug-disc] 4TB drive throwing errors - what's current drive thinking these days?

[B.S.]

One of my WD4001FAEX-00MJRA0 4TB Sata III drives is now throwing off errors. What's current thinking on drives and colours these days?

smartctl -H is now showing failure, showed PASSED a week ago. More importantly, btrfs scrub is throwing off a few hundred errors - this after a scrub last week that only threw 5 fixable errors (after restoring a half dozen other problematic files).

Seems since my last look, WD has even more colours out there by which to confuse. If anyone has clarity, that would be useful.

Past list consensus seemed to be that only WD Black made sense for the use case / time - 5 year warranty (i.e. manufacturer has more confidence in their product), 7200 rpm, 6 Gbps. Intellipower issues were reported, so seems to be best to avoid that. (I don't raid, rsync'ing to other machines instead, so multi-GB backups fly across the house nightly.) WD Red has gone to 3 year warranty, in favour of 'Red Pro' now. Blue, Black, Red, Red Pro, NAS, RE, RE pro ... bah!

The other drive of that ilk seems to be Seagate Constellations, but I don't recall having any experience with them to know.

What's current thinking on drives these days?