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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Buying used SAS harddrives

July 4th, 2020, 10:13

I'm trying to get about ~24TB of storage drives and I am trying to do it cheaply. I've seen on some websites (like ebay) that you can get 4tb SAS drives for ~$60 USD. Is this a bad move? I've never really worked with SAS drives and don't know if cutting the corners on this is going to cost more to my wallet in the long run. Alternative is shucking some SATA drives unless I am missing another possible avenue for cheap storage drives.



These drives will mostly be used for write once and read many times. The 24TB is calculating for some parity.

Re: Buying used SAS harddrives

July 6th, 2020, 17:09

i only have good experiences with sas drives. Under linux, defective sectors can be entered directly into the defectlist with sg_reassign. this is very helpful.
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