Comment on Enterprise SAS SSD are just built different... two layers, and takes up all the space it can.

Dirk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s also significantly more expensive 😭

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Secondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.

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    • ayaya@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Especially for hard drives. 8TB SAS drives are down to about $45 a piece.

      Brand new enterprise-grade 8TB drives are more around $180 new. Meaning as long as you have redundancy (which you should anyway) then you can lose four used drives before it stops being worth it. Not to mention drives get cheaper so if your $45 drive dies 2 years from now you could probably replace it for $35 etc.

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      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What’s a good, reputable source for those cheap 8TB drives?

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      • Kuinox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Where I live, for 45€ you get 800GB, not 8TB :').

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except when it comes to SSDs.

      Under some work loads they just get chewed to bits long before they are obsolete.

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• Krafting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Indeed it is.

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