All Metal too! I don’t have a use for them right now but I’m sure I’ll find out something! (I have 14 of them…)

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It’s also significantly more expensive 😭

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

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

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

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