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 swear I misread “second hand dicks” and was so confused
“Get yer dicks here, fresh dicks, only slightly used!”
Is that a pickup line? Lol
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I guess Freud was right