I’ve recently converted an old 2013 office PC into an Ubuntu file and media server and used the only hard drive I had laying aound, which was a ~13 year old, 500GB 2.5" laptop hdd.
I live in Australia where drives are really expensive. Is it worth getting a sas card and buying these drives for $20 each? Seller says they’re from 2013-2014, all drives tested and working with not SMART issues found.
Thanks
That’s the key with these. My storage box has 16x3tb, all similar used enterprise sas drives, but I’ve got 2x raidz2s and 2 hot spares on top of it. Important stuff is backed up to a 8TB external or Wasabi. alternate between scrubs and long SMART tests weekly.