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These worth it? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by rilkman@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] faintaxis@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they work, why waste them? 4TB isn't an insignificant capacity.

[–] JumpingCoconutMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I rock a bunch of these used drives, but I also have a backup plan, a few spare drives, and notifications for when a drive problem is detected.

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That's the key with these. My storage box has 16x3tb, all similar used enterprise sas drives, but I've got 2x raidz2s and 2 hot spares on top of it. Important stuff is backed up to a 8TB external or Wasabi. alternate between scrubs and long SMART tests weekly.