Hard Drive Collection... 4-5TB drives

[RobertFontaine]

I need to start my spinny disk collection this month so I can offload my ssd for a mirrored zfs pool.
As much as I like the 8TB disks a dozen 4 or 5's in a couple of zfs raidz pools is enough disk to keep me amused and by the time I need more 8TB disks will get cheaper.

So... What is the current star of the bunch that I should start sniping on fleabay?

thanks,
robert

 

[cliffr]

4TB at $30 right now 4TB OWC Aura SSD for Mac Pro Internal Solid State Drive | eBay

 

[pricklypunter]

I would have to say the HGST 3TB Ultrastar is still king, in terms of value, in my book, capacity vs cost vs performance is excellent. The 4TB has some good deals on too, but isn't quite as good a deal for the capacity. The disk I have been watching for a while now is the HE6

 

[BLinux]

i'd have to agree with pricklypunter that 3TB HGST is currently best $/TB and they are overall very reliable drives so getting them used still have plenty of service life left. I think i see them go for about $55-$60/3TB drive.

that said, I have 4x 4TB HGST Ultrastars that have been fully tested that i'd like to sell.

 

[Monoman]

price on the 4x4??

 

[RobertFontaine]

i'd have to agree with pricklypunter that 3TB HGST is currently best $/TB and they are overall very reliable drives so getting them used still have plenty of service life left. I think i see them go for about $55-$60/3TB drive.

that said, I have 4x 4TB HGST Ultrastars that have been fully tested that i'd like to sell.

As the gentleman said how much?

 

[BLinux]

As the gentleman said how much?

I PM'ed him, since I didn't want to hijack your thread with that side discussion. But if it interests you, everything I'm selling is listed in this FS thread:

FS: server build extras (SMC chassis, PSUs, HDDs, HBAs, RAM, and more)