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Big disk win, what do you think? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just picked up 17 x 1-TB HDDs at $120 total on craigslist. All WD, Seagate, and Toshiba.

What do we think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's a lot of drives to, er, drive. Lots of power and space to accommodate. Good for redundancy and resilience though. Would you install all or keep some on a shelf as cold spares?

You can get far more bytes for your money with larger drives of course, but those wouldn't have the flexibility you have with the 17 drives.

How are you intending to use them?