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I need to connect 4 SED Ultrastar HC550 hard drives somehow, but I don't know what to look for other than low price and number of ports. The drives are less than 285 MB/s each, so I doubt there would be bandwidth limitations. Does the HBA affect use of TCG Enterprise encryption? I was looking at...

There's a promo code 'chiaching' which makes it come out to $234.99 each. They aren't new but still it's manufacture recerts which people get when they have to RMA a new drive from Seagate. So a bit better than a used drive. Also, it looks like there's no sales tax to pay so by itself that's a...

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Toshiba/MG08ACA16TE/ Model MG08ACA16TE Toshiba He line SATA-3 550 TBW 5-year warranty 512e format 1 in 10^16 URE

I've been watching 18TB prices and this looks like the cheapest out there right now. 18TB enterprise hard drive

I have a bunch of 16TB and 18TB drives I was going to use for Chia but changed my mind. I can accept wire and ship from Florida, US. PM me for more details, I can give big discounts on 2+ 20 packs. They're all sealed and brand new. 40 drives ST16000NM000J: $18K 40 drives ST18000NM000J: $23K $22K

WP Arsenal 16TB SATA 7200RPM 3.5-Inch DAS Hard Drive Compatible in NetApp, SuperMicro, Synology, JBOD Storage Expansion Enclosures - Newegg.com

It's refurbished but these drives haven't really been out that long. Looks to be a good deal as 16TB is around this ball park of price. WD 18TB 4Kn SAS Hard Drive

Is there a recommended SAS2 (or SAS3) backplane for DIY workstation builds? 4 drives preferred. 8 would be awesome (if that's possible) 3.5" drives preferred. If not, then 2.5 would be interesting Installed within regular ATX or large ATX case ATX or CEB motherboard cases, like the Asus X99-E...

Hi All, I recently bought a dell R720 with a single 750W PSU. It came with a DVD and 6 spinning drives and 96 GB RAM. I then replaced the DVD with an SSD (Using SSD caddy) and ordered: 1. A pair of Intel XEOM E5-2650 v2 processors 2. 16GB DDR3 PC3 ECC RAM x 4 (Total RAM would be 64 + 96 = 160...

Solid drive at a good price for new.

Hey STH, I've been working on a project that I think you'll find interesting -- Scrutiny. If you run a server with more than a couple of hard drives, you're probably already familiar with S.M.A.R.T and the `smartd` daemon. If not, it's an incredible open source project described as the...

I just purchased and shucked 2 WD Element 10Tb drives and found that the drives are missing the middle mounting screw holes on the sides. Its a WD101EMAZ instead of the expected WD100EMAZ model. Has anyone else found this? Does anyone have any suggestions for how to mount this in a drive...

Alrighty fellas. I got a treat for you my peeps. However, this is only if you have the use case/need. Please read this whole novel...er...um...post before you do anything. So I normally browse through eBay looking for cheap deals on the things I want, and after a while, this gets boring. Or...

Hi, I have a Rackmount with a LSI-9011-8i. Now I have 2x8TB drives (one of these full) and I'm planning to buy another 4 of these drives (WD80EFAX) to build a RAID-5 with mdadm. (Now the 2 drives are NOT in RAID) If I create a RAID-5 with the new 4x8TB drives, how long will it take to grow, if I...

i bought some of these for my hp h220 when i realized my SFF 8087 cable had 4 sata connectors. just need confirmation i need a Mini SAS 36 SFF-8087 to (4) SFF-8482 for these drives, right?

I'm looking to fill an 8-bay NAS (FreeNAS) with good quality second hand disks that are not worn down to their last legs. WD Reds are ideal, but if you have anything in good condition I would be very interested too. I'm thinking 6-8 TB each, and 8-12 drives. Some sort of...

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 i always enjoy reading these, dunno why.

I'm trying to find 10-12 3.5" Hard drive caddies for a C6100 chassis however, it seems eBay wants crazy amounts per empty sled. However, I have found deals on other Dell chassis sleds, and I'm wondering if they will fit. I know the stock sleds are Dell 8TV68 / T305P sleds, but I'm wondering if...

Hey guys, I almost posted this a week ago when the price was $250 but now the price is even lower! This is an Enterprise class 6TB hard drive that hits a particular sweet spot for those that are warranty conscious. Newegg is offering this drive for $269 plus a 15% mobile discount until 10/16...

Stumbled upon this while browsing for PSU's xD Lot of 24 SuperMicro 05-SC82708 Hard Drive SATA SAS SCSI Caddy Tray 3.5" @ 29.50$ For those eyeballing ebay for cheap trays.