Recent content by Samir

Same message? My scam-o-meter is pegged at RUN!

$3.79/TB--NICE! Thank you both! I will set my bar lower from now on. :) I don't think there will be many deals on SATA at this price per TB, but it won't hurt to look for them knowing they exist in SAS. Also speaks volumes to the reliability of these SAS drives that even after years of...

Wow, $3.75/TB--that's what I find 4TB at, so I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled. I'm assuming the 8TBs you're referring to are SAS, right?

$6/TB is on the lower end for drives of this size is it not?

$6.125/TB for those doing the math. One of the large recyclers in MN, so would be interesting to see how one comes out on the other end.

ime a lot of these companies are so busy that their web sites are not regularly able to keep up with their ebay, etc. But you can call them and do business that way. I can't use these drives, but they seem legit and they have a lot in inventory according to their site so would be interesting...

Thank you for the link--nice quick read that answers everything. :) The article linked above was really great about answering this thoroughly. :)

Yeah totally! But still might be good for certain use cases.

So what happens when these are used in a normal sas usage without an smr aware host? Back to manually using the trim command? Or just poor performance?

Thank you!

Hey, what's with the Amazon link? It goes nowhere and is just garbled?

Oh, sorry I misunderstood. :confused:

Oh. Well, at least you got your two, and what a steal for enterprise 4TB for $100. :)

Seller error, but you got them all! Congrats!

Pretty interesting article. I think the best part of it was the link to diskprices.com, which I never heard of before and is totally awesome.