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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 days agoYes, but enterprise grade stuff on second hand market is basically always fairly priced (you don’t get a “good deal”, just a normal one).
That said, I would still rather go refurnished server disks than desktop, especially lower capacities.
theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Refurbishes server disks you mean exclusively SAS drives or also SATA?
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 days ago
Also SATA. There’s basically no difference.
(We don’t have all the same needs, so no right or wrong answers. All my current HDDs are SATA, which saves me one smol hassle in potential migrations/changes/salvages/troubleshooting, but nothing major. Perhaps they were even a little tiny bit cheaper new than the same with SAS, but that’s not a rule. I do have two SAS SSDs bcs they looked cool & I wanted to have them even after they become obsolete.)
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
It’s not really about 24/7, but it is about quality of components. Enterprise gear is made using slightly better parts and tighter tolerances. Things like more expensive capacitors rated for more hours/cycles, better power filters, things like that.
The end result (and this is easily verified) is the failure rate is much, much lower than comparable consumer-grade equipment.
There is sometimes a blurry line between what counts as enterprise vs pro-sumer vs consumer gear, though.