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submitted 10 months 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.

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[–] Zealousideal_Mix_567@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't buy them. Drives are cheap these days and the manufacturing dates on those are too old.

[–] SirLagz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

"Cheap" is relative. Sure, they are cheap compared to many moons ago, but doesn't mean people can just splash out on new 18TB drives.

$20 AUD for 4TB is a bargain for me, would mean I could finally upgrade some of my older gear off the 1/2/3TB drives that they're rocking.