All Metal too! I don’t have a use for them right now but I’m sure I’ll find out something! (I have 14 of them…)
Hey it’s me, your cousin…
My family might grow exponantially with all the cousin ahah
I’d always get industrial or enterprise hardware. It’s just better.
Indeed it is.
Are they cheaper or more expensive than the high density consumer SSDs?
usually more expensive per tb, but for a data center not that much because you can get more storage in a single rack than you otherwise would with peasant 8 tb ssds.
There are companies that sell parts from used servers, e.g. SAS controllers for PCI.
Well, I have servers that takes SAS drives so I don’t need this kind of hardware for the moment!
No use for them you say 🤔
I was actually just looking at buying some sas spinning drives for a nas. Found a seller on Amazon thats unfortunately gone before i could buy em but it was a pretty good deal. Where do you buy yours from?
I got them for free from the place I work at! I might not be paid a lot, but things like this makes up for it.
SAS drives are often thrown away because they aren’t worth a lot (if you don’t mind used drives), maybe you can find a lot of good deals there, and since they are cheaper you can always get some spare drives, with a RAID 5 setup it’s kinda good
Damn thats cool! My work doesnt let me take drives old drives. Though we dont use sas drives so that might be why.
I certainly dont mind used drives for mass storage. I was planning to do some kinda raid anyways.
I haven’t gotten any kind of nas setup yet. Trying to avoid buying too much lol but good to know other folks are using sas drives too.
Well, SAS or SATA, it doesn’t matter for companies… Except if they keep it for spare, they just don’t want to be bothered to delete all the data on them. All drives I got was erased before I got them, some people just don’t want to see them go to e-waste, others don’t care…
Fair point. My company keeps drives that get taken out of servers for office use. After that theyre recycled.
