What do you think about buying second hand disks and using higher redundancy?
For example 4x 16TB in RAIDz2? Is anyone using something like that? How’s it performing, reliability-wise?
E: Thanks all for the opinions and information!
What do you think about buying second hand disks and using higher redundancy?
For example 4x 16TB in RAIDz2? Is anyone using something like that? How’s it performing, reliability-wise?
E: Thanks all for the opinions and information!
I’ve had great experiences with exactly one vendor of second hand disks.
https://serverpartdeals.com/
Currently running 8x14TB in a striped & mirrored zpool.
I wish this was an option for Europe. Once you slap VAT and shipping, you end up paying more than for new disks. :(