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!

  • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOP
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      9 months ago

      Hot damn these are cheap!

      For $600 I could get 32TB array in:

      • 4x 16TB manufacturer recertified, 2-disk redundancy
      • 3x 16TB new, from interesting sellers, 1-disk redundancy

      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. 🤔🤔🤔