WTB: 2.5” SAS/SATA HDDs

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freebsdrules

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hi all - looking for cheap 2.5” sas/sata drives for archival purposes. Used is ok, ideally 4tb. Let me know what you have!
 

nthu9280

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:) got little excited reading the title of the thread till I realized that you are looking for large capacity drives. I have the 450GB SAS drives. Good luck with your search.
 

kapone

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These are all 3.5" drives...I thought the OP was looking for 2.5"??
 

Samir

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If they get under $100, that's not bad for full warranty. Thanks!
I think I saw them hit either $96 or $86 for the last 4tb before it went to liquidation.

Not sure how I missed that. You are correct.

Note that I'm looking for really budget drives and 5400rpm would work just fine.
I don't know how I missed that either. :oops: Sorry about that.
 

abq

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Unfortunarely, I believe you will have trouble finding cheap 4TB drives of any sort in 2.5" format. That is largest capacity 2.5" spinner in general circulation (barring brand new and rare 5TB spinners), and everyone has been on the look out for the 2.5" ones, so high demand with limited second hand supply. Anything higher capacity in 2.5" jumps to SSD, so price jumps even higher. ...can you use 1 or 2TB in 2.5" spinners, or even smaller high iop fast drives in 10K rpm style, would save some $s if you shop used deals;)
 
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XeonSam

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Hola, I have 8 Seagate 4tb 2.5 inch drives which i retired for 3.5 inch drives because of capacity (as well as 3.84TB TLC SAS3 drives for backups). Please message me if you're interested. They have little to no use on them.

BTW, running massive amounts of 2.5 inch drives causes a lot of heat in comparison to having a few larger capacity ones running 24x7. I'm sure you're aware. SAS drives are just ridiculous, especially the 15K. If its going to be running many daily backups... please consider the heat, electricity and noise before investing.

BTW I have some 1.2TB SAS HDDs as well if interested. The performance on the HGSTs was amazing but were retired because of the above reasons.

Good luck my friend!
 

freebsdrules

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Thanks all. I'm waiting on 8x 4tb drives to be shipped to me currently. That should cover me for a while but I would always entertain another set of 8x drives.