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I've recently converted an old 2013 office PC into an Ubuntu file and media server and used the only hard drive I had laying aound, which was a ~13 year old, 500GB 2.5" laptop hdd.

I live in Australia where drives are really expensive. Is it worth getting a sas card and buying these drives for $20 each? Seller says they're from 2013-2014, all drives tested and working with not SMART issues found.

Thanks

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[–] Maude-Boivin@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I have 4 of the WD Enterprise (yellow tabs) 6 TB and they’ve been quite reliable over 3 years…