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Jan 26, 2024 4:36 PM
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expired Posted by DesertGardener | Staff • Jan 26, 2024
Jan 26, 2024 4:36 PM
14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished)
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And your other drives that had the SMART data cleared now show they've been in use for a year, one year after you installed them?
You don't say...
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Even then, I'd trust a single brand new high quality drive over two of these with RAID redundancy.
Not worth it.
If spinning drives 'always' break, data centers must be PISSED.
Even then, I'd trust a single brand new high quality drive over two of these with RAID redundancy.
Not worth it.
Only idiots don't back important data up, both locally and remotely, whether it's on a refurbished drive or a new drive. New drives break too. I'd never trust ANY single hard drive with keeping important data safe without a backup.
Go ahead and waste double the money on new drives that can also fail and lose your data.
edit - and by the way, RAID is not a backup either.
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Serverpartdeals zeroes out the SMART data so it's probably just as used. Which isn't that much.
*fingers crossed*
Even then, I'd trust a single brand new high quality drive over two of these with RAID redundancy.
Not worth it.
"18TB is a LOT of data to lose so don't buy this!"
Uhh, what? Makes no sense. Either you keep backups and care about your data or you don't (and you don't). End of story. Larger drives just means less heat, power, and space that you have to worry about. Drive density is a positive, not a negative most of the time.
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There are also some good use-cases for stuff like this.
This TerraMaster unit was $135 and works well for what it is. https://slickdeals.net/f/17102278-das-unit-terramaster-d4-300-usb-3-1-gen1-type-c-storage-external-hard-drive-enclosure-hot-swappable-diskless-135-99?src=SiteSear
It passes the drive info through to the host, so you can use something like DrivePool+snapraid or run a NAS distro (I prefer OMV using mergerfs+snapraid) so that I can have a large offline backup target that I only spin up occasionally for media backups. The TerraMaster is hooked up to an OptiPlex Micro and can be moved out of the way when not in use or tucked wherever and left on as a NAS target for VMs, media server storage, backups, etc.
These things have their place if you have a specific plan.
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