I usually use the surveillance-line of disk drives. That's WD Purple, Seagate Skyhawk, or Toshiba S300. Theoretically, their firmware is supposed to be tuned to a higher queue depth and lower latency, which should be beneficial to RAID performance.

Haven't run any performance numbers on them, though.

NAS-oriented drives from manufacturers that don't lie about which disks are SMR and which are CMR. Right now, that means I buy Seagate Ironwolf drives and avoid WD like the plague.

You never want an SMR drive. Just say no.

Seagate Exos (x14, x16 or x18) and Ironwolf or WD HC520. Consumer drives, like the Ironwolf drives, are usually more expensive than enterprise. If you have a SAS backplane get SAS because they're cheaper as Chia caused the price of SATA drives to skyrocket.