HDD reliability question

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I recently started doing audio simulation for a certain German bus driving simulator. This involves recording 24bit 96kHz audio from different buses. These recordings are huge in size and also pretty hard to come by since from my experience, even when operators have batches of several dozen identical buses in reality they aren't equal in sound wise. 

So my machine was until last week compiled of just two 1TB Seagate 7200 rpm drives in RAID0 (Stupid I know) until one of those drives died. Luckily I managed to salvage 200 gigs of my recordings and back up them somewhere else. 

Then I got the cheapest 1TB drive that I could find in the middle of the night, which was a WD Red 7200 rpm drive. Currently my OS is installed on a single HyperX 3K SSD and the recordings are on the WD Red. But the drive in question is a NAS drive and thereof I have concerns about reliability. I have a raid controller on my mobo and I plan to buy a third drive and put the recordings on RAID1 on the two new drives.

So then comes the question of which kind / manufacturer HDD to get? 

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I think WD Blacks are really good, but I'm not 100% sure. Also definitely no drives more than 2TB, probably 1TB would be ideal (assuming you have enough SATA ports to be able to install enough drives to store everything).

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What about that Red WD? Are those red's any good?

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Reds are solid, I have 8 of them in my file server and I haven't had any problems with them so far, they're been running 24/7 for over over 18 months.

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Thank you guys so much for the info.