Just picked up 17 x 1-TB HDDs at $120 total on craigslist. All WD, Seagate, and Toshiba.

What do we think?

  • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That sounds like a pain in the ass. It’s a decent $/TB ratio, but that’s still 17 disks

  • ElevenNotes@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    From a price point of view that was not a good deal in terms of $/TB, but, if you need a lot of throughput you can easily create a 17 disk RAID6 array, but this requires an LFF storage system that can handle these many drives. Do you have such a system already or what was the idea to buy this many 1TB drives? Can you elaborate more?

  • lilolalu@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sorry to chime in on the negative comments but it’s not a good deal. 17x7 Watt = ~120 Watt, that’s around what my entire home setup uses, including storage.

    • limeice@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      That was my thought too. Power efficiency is a big factor to consider when hosting any permanently online self hosted solution. It just doesn’t add up right when going for smaller hard drives anymore.