(All Sold) WTS/WTT: 8 TB Seagate Archive drives

[sinisterDei]

Hiya!

I've got 10+ 8TB Seagate Archive HDDs for $140 each. I would also be willing to accept in trade 6TB hard drives in exchange for the 8TB units. I have need of a RAID array and the Archives don't play nice with those.

My preferred payment method would be Paypal, though I'll admit to having accepted a money order once in my life. I live in the Houston, TX area so that's where the drives would come from!

I'm sinister_dei over on Heat (Trader Reviews for sinister_dei | HeatWare.com) and sinisterDei over on [H]. I just figured out that STH had forums this morning when I was informed by someone, so now I'll have to start posting over here as well!

*edit* All drives have sold

 

[sinisterDei]

To the top!

 

[zer0gravity]

Have you tried something like ZFS / Storage Spaces? Both work for the 60x 8TB Archive drives I have. Running them from a Dell 3060E (2x) via SAS to server 2016 Storage Spaces.

I've also run ZFS on them with Napp-it but only for P.O.C.

Currently my NVR video dump as well as long term file storage for Veeam.

 

[sinisterDei]

Unfortunately, neither of those solutions will work for me at the present. The place where the RAID array will live is unfortunately stuck running a client edition of Windows (10 Pro) via other software requirements, and the system is entirely self-contained on one server. In a magical world, I would love to split the roles up with a separate compute server versus something like FreeNAS for ZFS-hosted storage, but it's not in the cards at the moment. Thus, I need drives happy to live at the other end of a LSI-based RAID6 array. I'm just trying to lower the cost a bit by picking up some drives in trade for the ones I don't need, but at the end of the day I'll just end up buying however many drives I need that I don't get via trading!

 

[cgtechuk]

Unfortunately, neither of those solutions will work for me at the present. The place where the RAID array will live is unfortunately stuck running a client edition of Windows (10 Pro) via other software requirements, and the system is entirely self-contained on one server. In a magical world, I would love to split the roles up with a separate compute server versus something like FreeNAS for ZFS-hosted storage, but it's not in the cards at the moment. Thus, I need drives happy to live at the other end of a LSI-based RAID6 array. I'm just trying to lower the cost a bit by picking up some drives in trade for the ones I don't need, but at the end of the day I'll just end up buying however many drives I need that I don't get via trading!

How many do you have in total and are they all shucked from externals?

 

[sinisterDei]

None are shucked. I don't actually know how many I have, but it's 15-ish.

 

[cgtechuk]

None are shucked. I don't actually know how many I have, but it's 15-ish.

You have PM