WD Red \ Purple vs Seagate IronWolf \ SkyHawk. Raid, NAS, HomeLab, CCTV

[himaro]

So, I'm building a home server to replace my ageing Proliant microserver G7.
It's going to have it's work cut out for it, as it's going to be doing the following

• NAS
• CCTV (BlueIris)
• PLEX
• HomeLab
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • Whatever I need it to be!

I'm thinking of getting a dedicated raid controller & have 6 2TB HDD's in either raid 10 or 5 (maybe 6?)
However, I'm unsure what HDD's to get... NAS or CCTV? WD or Seagate?
The OS's (assuming virtualisation here, Win10 Pro& CentOS.) are going to be on a M2 SSD.
What's your advice?
And what free hypervisor would you use as well, while I'm here. Does VMWare still have a free version?

 

[himaro]

Why not keep the Microserver as the NAS (especially as it has ECC ram e.g. for ZFS), and just buy a NUC or similar to use for the hypervisor side of things?

I have considered doing something along those lines, I've not really looked much into NUC's in the past.
However, I'd rather have everything inside one bit of hardware, for simplicity and keeping running costs lower. It may not actually BE lower running costs, but it looks it too the wife
I was considering upgrading to a Gen8 or 10 HPE microserver, but ultimately, getting something like the Silverstone CS380 case means I can easily upgrade as need be.