That brings up another notion I am half considering...
I am having more trouble with larger drives... And while one can spend the money for some whopping drives, I am beginning to circle back around to smaller drives arranged in a RAID array, rather than investing in big drives that have been proving somewhat unreliable.
Not only are the smaller proven drives more durable, if you use a redundant RAID, you have the benefit of recovery if one of the drives does fail.
Along with that, I think I am heading toward a RAID capable NAS to park on the router. I have not done much with NAS as I have two standing servers in the house (business and media) which back data between themselves. And tin is cheap for me - I probably have four machines sitting here right now that I could hang full of drives, so a NAS is actually an expensive thing for me to do comparatively.
But with that investment, I think I could eliminate my main standing server (as weird as that would be for me), providing I can get decent transfer rates to and from the NAS.
Just something I am pondering.

I use large drives in a 5 drive NAS array that is on 24/7. I use Raid 6 which allows the loss of 2 drives out of the 5 and still recover your data. And I have auto backup weekly on the NAS to yet another very large drive. I learned the hard way that Raid 5 that will tolerate one drive going down wasn't enough. When one drive dies and you insert a new drive the volume has to be rebuilt to initialize the new drive. It can take days to do that. This puts the remaining drives under a lot of stress. Then I've had one of the remaining drives fail while it was rebuilding - that was the end. Fortunately the NAS auto backup was good and I recovered everything with that.
So with Raid 6 when you lose a drive, you replace all the drives rebuilding the volume one at a time and if you lose another while rebuilding it is okay. That's been successful for me.
And with arrayed NAS drives, when one starts to show signs of dying, you replace them all with new ones. When one starts to go, generally the remaining ones aren't far behind.
Added note, my current NAS has about 9 TB of data on it...