EXPIRED 4TB HGST SAS Hard Drives - $8

[EasyRhino]

you need a sas controller and some cables (a variety of breakout cables are available, some only break out to sata connections (not useful) and the ones that go to SAS SFFF 8482 (I may have the number wrong) may get their power from either SATA power connector or molex power connector.

I have a HP H240 that I like as a cheap adapter for 8 drives. There's been a great deals for a inspur? LSI model that supoprts 16.

Maybe 30 bucks for a controller and 10 or 15 bucks for each cable that supports 4x drives. Not super expensive, but if you're on a mega budget it makes the deal worse.

 

[Sandstorm0123]

Will these work on a standard server, or do they have a special 520 sector size or vendor locked firmware? Some googling shows that some HUS724040ALS640 have 520 sector size and there was one person who couldn't get these drives to spin up

 

[jbrukardt]

You can get an extra 2 year warranty on 20 of them for $2.99

 

[Sandstorm0123]

Ok, I don't know if they're vendor locked but these drives are compatible with some Oracle Linux and ZFS appliances so it should be a standard sector size right?

From off another ebay listing with the same Oracle part number:

SUN/ORACLE, 7065489, 4TB 7200 RPM SAS Disk Drive


THE INFORMATION LISTED BELOW IS WHAT THIS UNIT FITS,

HOWEVER, THE SERVERS AND DISK ARRAYS LISTED BELOW, ARE * NOT * INCLUDED IN THIS AUCTION OR SALE.

SERVERS

SUN SERVER X4-2L
ORACLE SERVER X5-2L
ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE X5-2

DISK ARRAYS

ORACLE STORAGE DE2-24C
ZFS STORAGE 7120, 7320, 7420
ORACLE ZFS STORAGE ZS3-2, ZS3-4, ZS3-BA, ZS3-ES, ZS4-4

 

[jbrukardt]

You generally can fix these. I had to fix a bunch of 520b 8TBs a while back

This thread:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/page-24

and this thread:

How to reformat 520 byte drives to 512 bytes (usually)

So a lot of cool hardware uses 520 byte sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (or 4* sector size in the case of SSDs). There is a lot of misinformation out there. Prettymuch anything since 2012 that supports 520 byte sectors will support 512 byte sectors if you know the right magic commands...

forum.level1techs.com

 

[Bert]

I got 20 of 4TBs at 1$/TB with shipping (not incl tax). I was also able to score $3/TB for host managed 10TB SMR drives.

This is getting very interesting. Starting data hoarding at $10/TB with 2TB drives. I expect to see 3$/TB to be the norm next year.

 

[DouglasABaker]

All gone...

 

[Psycho_Robotico]

I got 20 of 4TBs at 1$/TB with shipping (not incl tax). I was also able to score $3/TB for host managed 10TB SMR drives.

This is getting very interesting. Starting data hoarding at $10/TB with 2TB drives. I expect to see 3$/TB to be the norm next year.

Where did you get 10TB drives at that price? I suppose they are all gone..?