Except when it comes to SSDs.
Under some work loads they just get chewed to bits long before they are obsolete.
Comment on Enterprise SAS SSD are just built different... two layers, and takes up all the space it can.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 9 months agoSecondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.
tempest@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
ayaya@lemdro.id 9 months 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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
What’s a good, reputable source for those cheap 8TB drives?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Ah, you found the flaw in this plan.
ayaya@lemdro.id 9 months ago
Just buy them on eBay. Why does it matter where they come from? Again, four of them have to die before it’s no longer worth it. It’s extremely unlikely you’d be that unlucky.
Personally I have 15 drives in my NAS, all of them were bought used and they’ve been running 24/7 for 4+ years without issue. I expected to lose at least one per year but they just keep chugging along. Some of them have over 80k power on hours (9+ years)
CazRaX@lemmy.world 9 months ago
12 drives here all from eBay running same as you for 2 years not a single problem. Hard drives are stubborn bastards when they want to be.
Kuinox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Where I live, for 45€ you get 800GB, not 8TB :').