I have a G-technologies G drive that I purchased at an Apple store. Easy to drag and drop files into it. I don't have enough computer knowledge to make a recommendation.
I have three 4TB drives that I use for main storage. Two of them are G Technologies drives and one is a Western Digital My Book for Mac. The Western Digital (WD) was the first one I bought and there is a reason that I don't own any more of them. (I do have several Western Digital 1 TB portable drives that have not caused me trouble.) I've owned one of the G Tech drives for several years now and just added another two months ago because I was able to get one on sale and I felt that I needed another. I now have all of my important files from the My Book copied to each of the G Tech drives, and have pretty much stopped any new photo storage on the WD. (However, a lot of people have never had any issues with WD drives.) After I back up my files to the second G Tech drive, I eject that drive, power it down and disconnect it from all connections in case I have a lightning stike at or near the house.
I typically shoot NEF and jpeg fine files and download both together into a folder hierarchy with the date and subject or location in the lowest level folders. I always store my files in a folder heirarchy with the highest level folder titled as the year in which the photos were taken.
For instance, I'll have a folder titled with the year, say 2020; the next level down is going to be named the month of the shots creation, after that, the folder is likely named for the day of the files creation, followed by the location of the files creation in the next folder. If I want to pull photos out of these folders, I'm likely to move into the next higher folder and create a new folder with the name of the subject, especially if the photos are primarily of one person.
They are left there until I look at them in Lightroom and are deleted only if the image is a bad shot, for whatever reason. (Take enough photos and there end up being a lot of reasons to delete photos!) After Lightroom processing, I move them into a folder within the heretofore lowest level folder named "Processed." That is the typical end of my file storage process.
I haven't always used this file nomenclature, so I sometimes have a difficult time finding older photo files. When that is the case, it just takes me longer to find the files that I'm looking for. My way also presents limitations when trying to find files in Lightroom.
I suggest that you work on a naming and filing convention that works for you and stick with it to a point when it becomes evident that you should change it to improve its utility and performance.
WM