What is the best 8TB internal drive these days?

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I've just had a 6TB Red start giving me bad blocks -- predictably less than a year after warranty has expired. Looking at the Backblaze reliability tables, Reds are the absolute worst in reliability, so I won't be getting any more Reds, even though I used to SWEAR by them.

IronWolf Pro (with 5 year warranty)? Backblaze don't use IronWolf, but do use Barracuda Pro, which I assume / hope are mechanically the same thing and therefore should have the same reliability?
 
Ended up going for Red (non-Pro) 8TB. Turns out there isn't actually a lot of choice out there. Toshiba drives have 2 or 3 years warranty max, HGST (now WD) are a fair bit more expensive, and IronWolf seem like they're very loud. I got the non-Pro because I didn't want the extra heat of the 7200 RPM. Hopefully this one will last.
 
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