So it’s been a a few years since I’ve bought hard drives for my little home server and wanted to get a bead on what’s the target on dollar to TB in the post Covid world. Thanks!
Around $10/TB for used stuff which is what I run in everything.
Drives are going to fail at some point, regardless if new or used. So I’m not worried about used drives, I test them with a full write/read run initially, and have backups in place.
Sounds like good practice. If you’re depending directly on the reliability of the drive, you’re doing backups wrong.
Yup, data loss happens at some point, either hardware failure, software bugs, or just plain old user error.
I find this to be a good resource: shucks.top
Edit: just saw you mentioned this. Oops!
Yup, got my last two 10 TB drives from checking there. Shame all of these stores fronts are making it harder to aggregate data but they sure like to gather up ours with or without permission.
I got an 18tb HDD certified refurbished from usedserverparts for like 170.
If you are planning on using a RAID1/5/6 (or SnapRAID), think about used drives. I’ve just bought 6 6TB drives for €8/TB (this). It all depends on what you need to store on those drives.
I thought about it but man that uncertainty still spooks me a bit. Plus I’m looking for larger drives at this point since my current home server is pretty full up on SATA connections and hdd drive space. Maybe one of these days when I can afford a full on rack system.
Man, this is really kind of annoying that the old price aggregate sites like Shucks.top aren’t working anymore. I did flop between pcpartpicker, disk prices, and just searching the sites directly and found a 16 and 18 TB WD drive for 219/285 respectively so ~14/16 dollars per TB respectively. Guess I’ll just have to go with the 16 because I’m cheap and need storage very soon.
Get a controller that works with SAS drives and buy them used and cheap from eBay. Consumer devices won’t run SAS drives on SATA controllers so they’re usually cheaper.
