Second hand disks?
Second hand disks?
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!
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For hard drives I'd never trust them used with data I care about. Especially big drives like that that would take AGES to rebuild.
For enterprise grade SSDs I'd kinda yolo it for a system I care a bit less for, or as a cache drive. But not HDDs.
4 1 ReplyWhat if you can do a 2 or 3 disk redundancy?
2 0 ReplyThe biggest fear would be when you’re rebuilding, you’re putting extra stress on the other drives, thereby increasing the risk of them, too, dying.
6 0 ReplyI suppose using mirror vdevs technically also puts stress on drives during rebuilding, however it should be significantly less than on drives in RAIDz.
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