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Jannis Jacobsen

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If you watch eBay sometimes you get super lucky - I got an LTO-8 drive that was brand new for 700! With 70$ 12TB tapes, and like 300$+ 12TB HDDs, I've broken even on the cost per gb after like 5 tapes - with the best prices per GB it's closer to like 10 tapes, but still, really nice if you can get a drive for cheap.
And here I'd be happy if I could find a decent LTO-4 or LTO-5 5 1/4 SAS drive for cheap...
All I can find are drives for tape libraries... :)

-j
 

mtg

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And here I'd be happy if I could find a decent LTO-4 or LTO-5 5 1/4 SAS drive for cheap...
All I can find are drives for tape libraries... :)

-j
This was a drive for a library, a pretty fancy IBM one. Also fiber channel, which for me was fine because randomly inherited a bunch of qlogic fc cards with a used Fujitsu sparc box.

It seems in most cases you can “shuck” them. Only difference is no flap on the bay.
 
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miraculix

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AI is such ass boys, it completely killed affordable computing both at the retail and second hand tiers. good job there but hey at least we can still get articles about $3000 slop mobile-grade tier hardware for AI on the site
I'm looking forward to the eventual bubble bursting despite potential splash damage (I work for a partner). And not just to relieve skyrocketing prices due to real, speculative or downright predatory factors. It'll also shake out some of the "flakiness" and mature the industry.
 

will.murnane

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122.88tb for $4k. PCI express gen 4, listed as new. This is kind of a weird one, too many dollars for me to splash out atm but great price per tb. Might be a good drive for backup or a portable media collection or something, but I wouldn’t want an un-mirrored drive to store anything important.
 

sbert

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122.88tb for $4k. PCI express gen 4, listed as new. This is kind of a weird one, too many dollars for me to splash out atm but great price per tb. Might be a good drive for backup or a portable media collection or something, but I wouldn’t want an un-mirrored drive to store anything important.
Most likely a scam. Seller just created their account this month and has zero feedback. eBay seems to be chock full of such sellers these days.
 

ca3y6

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To me that’s not the red flag for those HP disks. The sales seem to corresponds to real buyers, are recent and for similar items. The middle listing is fairly recent (PM1643), but the first one is an old model (5100 pro).

The red flag to me is that the 3 listings showed up at the same time, with the sane stock of 5, with the same photo of 5 boxes with the labels redacted in the photo. So it doesn’t feel genuine, or might be a bug in their listing.
 

EasyRhino

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To me that’s not the red flag for those HP disks. The sales seem to corresponds to real buyers, are recent and for similar items. The middle listing is fairly recent (PM1643), but the first one is an old model (5100 pro).

The red flag to me is that the 3 listings showed up at the same time, with the sane stock of 5, with the same photo of 5 boxes with the labels redacted in the photo. So it doesn’t feel genuine, or might be a bug in their listing.
"This listing was ended by the seller on Tue, Jan 27 at 5:38 AM because there was an error in the listing."