What do you think about buying second hand disks and using higher redundancy?
For example 4x 16TB in RAIDz2? Is anyone using something like that? How’s it performing, reliability-wise?
E: Thanks all for the opinions and information!
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I would check out serverpartdeals as they’re pretty reputable. But for any used drive, I would make sure that you have a limited warranty or at least some sort of return policy. Once you get the drive, run badblocks on it, which will check for… bad blocks.
Hot damn these are cheap!
For $600 I could get 32TB array in:
A 1-disk redundancy 32TB array sold from Newegg would be closer to $900. I could get 3-disk redundancy 32TB array from these guys for that much. 🤔🤔🤔