archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoIf you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab?message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIf you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab?archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTheInsane42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoSell them and buy low budget low power consumption disks that would fit my purpose. Enterprise-grade usually has enterprise-grade power consumption. From the power saving alone you can buy nice stuff.
minus-squareBaldDude@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoPlease do not sell used enterprise hard drives, especially if you got them from your employer. This is how those emberrasing company secrets get leaked and we can’t have that can we? :)
minus-squareTheInsane42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThen those disks should have been wiped at the company before they were allowed to leave the building.
minus-squareBaldDude@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoYes! Yes, they should have been wiped. (and then they should have been fed into a blender if i had my way.) :)
Sell them and buy low budget low power consumption disks that would fit my purpose.
Enterprise-grade usually has enterprise-grade power consumption. From the power saving alone you can buy nice stuff.
Please do not sell used enterprise hard drives, especially if you got them from your employer. This is how those emberrasing company secrets get leaked and we can’t have that can we? :)
Then those disks should have been wiped at the company before they were allowed to leave the building.
Yes!
Yes, they should have been wiped. (and then they should have been fed into a blender if i had my way.) :)