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If you are planning to use drive in home production 24/7, and don't want to have data losses. You should not considered anything else but new drives with warranty. Even new drives could go bad with perfect smart data.

It really depends on how much you paid for the drive. smart data is not that bad after 6 years of abuse. I use 6TB sas drives for offline backups. Write the backup to the drive, then store the drives in a box. I paid $12.5 include shipping per drive.

Last month, I brought 32 x 6 TB HGST SAS drives with Type 2 protection Here are the steps. I use Ubuntu OS, install sg_format , just type sg_format , Ubuntu will show you apt install command to install sg_format. sudo sg_format -v --format --fmtpinfo=0 /dev/$drive wait a day or 2 days for...

I looked at my BKHD board. Under the ram slot, label is BKHD-1338NAS-17. The two bios mod are for BKHD board only. In this long thread, there were discussion on how to identify various models of N5105 board

Is your N5105 board from BKHD? The two bios mod that you mentioned are for BKHD board. I have 3 BKHD N5105 system using UNRAID without issue.

I kind of remember that problem running 1.nsh Instead of running 1.nsh > cd to your flash drive type the command directly > fpt -f 208.bin Updated bios worked for me.

try xoxer`s bios

I have few BKHD N5105 boards. Looks identical boards Copule of boards need to have jit-01010 bios mod for ASPM to show up. Couple of boards needs xoxer bios mod for ASPM to work. I almost gave up after couple of months scratching my heads trying to figure up why ASPM won't show up. My notes...

I concur , back in Oct-Dec 2023 , I paid (Best Offer )$25 each for 8TB SAS. My guess there were over 600 drives among all the Ebay sellers with listing price below $40 with Best Offer Today, my only regret was not stock up 8TB HD...

I purchased 4 "clean" Toshiba HD ( not grade B) , hoping for lower POH drives. I received the 4 HD 15 min ago, All 4 HD looks like new and clean. POH , 3 drives are 36K hrs ( 4years) , 1 drive is 24K hrs ( 2.7 years ). Not sure it worth the extra $$ for clean drives. I may buy 8 more Grade B...

After receiving HD , Please report back POH hours.

@xoxer Please share your mod bios for the BKHD N510x board. I tried jit-010101 bios , but I couldn't find ASPM enable option. Could you please post screenshot of the BIOS setting related to ASPM enable. thank you

You Have Chosen Wisely :)

The 2.5GBE card that you linked worked fine with Dell 7070 mini and Proxmox. I have few Dell mini using the network card. Dell mini back plate has punch out opening. Opening is perfect fit for the network port.

You could moved the USB key license online once a year (365 days) without contacting support. To move the USB key license, use a new USB key, boot Unraid, OS would notify you that key is invalid. Ask what to do, replace key , start a new trial . You would answer "replace key", the whole process...