HDD 12-16TB recommendation

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Greetings,

I used to buy WD Blue 7200rpm, but it is no longer produced in a larger capacity. WD Black is too loud, Red is for NAS, Purple Surveillance and Gold is Enterprise, Ultrastar is DataCenter, so it's not exactly an ideal choice and it's a strange situation.

What is the current recommendation for HDD that is quiet and can be used in a similar way as Blue (CMR mandatory), it would be good if it is 7200rpm, but not loud.

I can also buy WD Elements online and take the drive out of it, I'm not sure which HDD is inside, I have to check, so I would like to get some opinions.

Thanks for your time.
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Although WD Reds are intended for use in NAS they work well in desktop PCs. You could also consider the Toshiba N300 range. And, as you say, you could shuck a drive from a WD Element. I have shucked a number 8TB and a couple of 18TB drives and they are white-label versions of standard WD drives; quite possibly WD Reds or similar, maybe without the NAS firmware. After all, how many different 8TB and 18TB helium-filled drives does WD make?
 
So from what I have read the Elements are CMR and are usually RED.
Do I have to worry regarding TLER or head parking or that the drive is made only for external usage, so it should be reliable working in desktop usage 24/7, right?
 
Actually I take back the 20TB Elements recommendation. The noise when idle isn't bad, but the head noise when it moves during a random seek is extremely loud and not suitable to put in a home PC if you care about noise. My 14TB Elements from a few years ago is far quieter, and comments from reddit suggest the 12TB-14TB drives sold today are still very quiet.
 
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