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Old Mini PC with 3.5" HDD (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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are there any older ex-office mini PCs like the elitedesk, optiplex, thinkstation, etc models that can fit a 3.5" drive? Not looking for anything new and thus expensive, just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel) that can host some light stuff. thanks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why 3.5" drive? (Just curious).

I've found prices aren't necessarily any better at that size.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not the OP, but capacity: there aren't 20TB 2.5 drives.

(Or 18, 16, 14, 12, or 10TB ones, for that matter....)

Kinda a dead-end product since laptops are all on SSDs, and enterprises have flocked to SSDs as well and that was essentially the entire market for that size of HDD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Putting that much data on just one drive freaks me out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Raid builds hurt financially up front but can save you from a lot of heartache later, even with larger disks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Totally. I've got an 8TBx4 RAID5 that has about as much space as one 20TB spinning drive, but with the advantage that if one fails I don't lose anything.

Putting 20TB on one drive though? That's too risky for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I mean, 20TB drives will work in an array just as well as 8TB 😉

Honestly with the price of refurb enterprise drives, it's really hard not to justify not going that route and just keeping a spare drive formatted on warm standby at all times.

A bit of a digression though, since OP isn't looking to cram a bunch of drives into an old mini case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's why you use 2 and have backup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Two is one and one is none.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Capacity like that is the only reason I could think of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

they are widely available and cheap.