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…)
I don’t have a use for them
Not having a use for extra storage. Wow.
Anyway: !datahoarder@lemmy.ml
Hey it’s me, your cousin…
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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With the SATA acronym it seems to have trouble resolving the AT, so I became curious. Here’s what I’ve found:
“AT” was IBM’s abbreviation for “Advanced Technology”; thus, many companies and organizations indicate SATA is an abbreviation of “Serial Advanced Technology Attachment”. However, the ATA specifications simply use the name “AT Attachment”, to avoid possible trademark issues with IBM.
I’d always get industrial or enterprise hardware. It’s just better.
Secondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.
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.
There are companies that sell parts from used servers, e.g. SAS controllers for PCI.
