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Second hand disks? (www.ebay.ca)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There seems to be two types of homelabbers with regards to storage:

  • Those who take storage redundancy seriously
  • Those who don't seem to care

I've made the mistake of asking the second group what they thought about types and quantities of storage, and I got quite a few "why are you concerned?" type questions. My guess is that they regard obtaining data to be free/trivial, so storing it redundantly is a pointless cost. I'll just say that I don't share their cavalier attitude.

This setup is my personal goal, and I think refurbished drives are the best way to go about it (provided they are reasonably taken care of). If you're working in a redundant setup, the age of the drives matters a lot less.