There's a lot of drives on ebay that are not the common typical SATA desktop drives.
From the somewhat common 520byte drives to SMR drives, etc.
What are ways to leverage these things into cheap big storage?
For instance, i see a lot of Netapp drives for sale for cheap. And the aforementioned 520's.
I know 520's can be reformated low level. Can anything be done with the netapps? What else is out there?
I would like to get significantly below the ~6-10 dollar/Tb level that seems hard to do right now.
From the somewhat common 520byte drives to SMR drives, etc.
What are ways to leverage these things into cheap big storage?
For instance, i see a lot of Netapp drives for sale for cheap. And the aforementioned 520's.
I know 520's can be reformated low level. Can anything be done with the netapps? What else is out there?
I would like to get significantly below the ~6-10 dollar/Tb level that seems hard to do right now.