SAS drives in general are harder to get to soon down also.
I'm probably going to have some storj node hosting on spare capacity so they tends to keep the drives busy all the time anyway
on their site they list a box of 20 for $75 per drive.
incidentally using their website it was both free shipping and no sales tax to california. score!
In the medium old days (15-20 years ago) the market was bifurcated.
enterprise drives for high IOPS were 2.5" and running at 10k or 15k RPM screamers and often used SAS interface.
Consumer drives were SATA, 3.5", and 5400 or 7200rpm.
Calling those higher performance drives "SAS" could be a...
I mean... yes but... for me a SATA drive would actually be worth slightly more than SAS.
I have never noticed any performance difference between SAS and SATA for spinning rust drives.
a SATA drive has the advantage in that I could use it in other places if needed, and more useful from a resale...
12 dollar shipping kills the deal! (well relatively, you can get refurbs with longer warranties for just over 90 bucks)
other thread (1) 12TB 3yr warranty refurbed Seagate for $6.83/TB shipped | ServeTheHome Forums
here may be some slitghtly better links:
WD WD120EDAZ 12TB 5400RPM SATA...
It was answered in the middle of this megathread, but yes the boards use a lot of power. by a "lot" i mean it's never going to go below 60W usage when idle, no matter what CPU or operating system you use. My pet theory is it's the IPMI or more likely the PLX PCI switch guzzling the energy...
in this other thread that had rolled to the second page:
12TB 3yr warranty refurbed Seagate for $6.83/TB shipped | ServeTheHome Forums
and second page of that one has links. both goharddrive and severpartsdeals are selling SATA drives for under $90, including shipping, and they have longer...
I wouldn't want to buy these drives because my electricity price is expensive.
But sometimes you just need a drive you can abuse, and these would be great. I used to have some of these and they were tough.
Too bad they're not SATA, it would increase their use cases.
reddit r/buildapcsales turned up some 12TB drives from go hard drive for $73 now:
Seagate Enterprise Capacity v7 ST12000NM0127 12TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 512e HDD | eBay
and serverparts deals also having decent prices on ebay store of some larger capacity 16TB or 18TB drives popping in and out...
your point is true on $ per TB, but conversely, once you pass a certain number of drives (that number is generally 'whatever will fit in my current chassis') then using the lower density drives becomes more of a chore.
Also expensive electricity cost can be a drag, even if it's only like 9W per...
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