So it’s been a a few years since I’ve bought hard drives for my little home server and wanted to get a bead on what’s the target on dollar to TB in the post Covid world. Thanks!
Around $10/TB for used stuff which is what I run in everything.
Drives are going to fail at some point, regardless if new or used. So I’m not worried about used drives, I test them with a full write/read run initially, and have backups in place.
Sounds like good practice. If you’re depending directly on the reliability of the drive, you’re doing backups wrong.
Yup, data loss happens at some point, either hardware failure, software bugs, or just plain old user error.
Get a controller that works with SAS drives and buy them used and cheap from eBay. Consumer devices won’t run SAS drives on SATA controllers so they’re usually cheaper.
I got an 18tb HDD certified refurbished from usedserverparts for like 170.
That’s a good price. I’m considering buying an exos x20 18tb for 189 from serverpartdeals so just about as good of a deal depending on which hdd you got.
Man, this is really kind of annoying that the old price aggregate sites like Shucks.top aren’t working anymore. I did flop between pcpartpicker, disk prices, and just searching the sites directly and found a 16 and 18 TB WD drive for 219/285 respectively so ~14/16 dollars per TB respectively. Guess I’ll just have to go with the 16 because I’m cheap and need storage very soon.
Hard drive stocks are currently a mess. I don’t get it, even Amazon has low stocks on everything be it small or large drives.
Local supplier increased prices to ridiculous values and still doesn’t have the numbers. Anyone knows what’s going on?
I do know that Seagate announced HD price hikes because of “AI” related demand but who really knows.
Check serverpartdeals, they have tons of stock. I’m currently looking at buying several of these over the next year or two.
