Thread 106487176

Just received 3 of these in the mail. $20 for each. How am I doing /g/uys?

Are those used? I'd want to ensure they're in good shape.

>>106487203
at $20 and enterprise they are probably used and abused

>>106487176 (OP)
Enjoy your 9, I mean 8.1TB of storage.

Don't use them for anything critical, or at least put two of them in RAID1and use the third for off-site backup.

>>106487176 (OP)
Based. Put them in RAID 5.

>>106487276
this is straight 3TB. no Timmy-bytes here fuck face.

>>106487203
>>106487237
yeah they're used. what's the first thing I should do with them? SMART Test? If they fail, I'll just return them and get others or my money back

>>106487176 (OP)
>sas
Have fun connecting them

>>106487399
Already did. They are recognized and work fine. What are you getting at?

Why you fag/g/ots can't be happy for me?

>>106487557
im happy for you anon

please take care of your cables
hard bends fucked one of mine up

>>106487559
Thank you. One is running quite warm. Why is that you think?

>>106487574
reapply thermal paste?

WTH is MDD
HDD is all Seagate/WD/Toshiba now

>>106487569
Okay will do. Thanks for the advice. Is it a good idea to format that in BTRFS or NTFS? Would windows recognize them? I use kibbutz primarily tho

>>106487603
whoa fucking kibbutz when I type linuz wtf is going on?

ass

captcha: rdxsx

>>106487594
refurbished drive seller
spinning mystery meat

>>106487345
Neat, I always thought drives were spacecucked by marketers. I bought some used enterprise drives not long ago and I'm satisfied with them. They work.

>>106487676
that's good to know and reassuring, anon, I hope I have pleasant experiences with these, too.

Gparted has them showing as 2.73 Timmy-Bytes. oh well. Memes and throwaway, meaningless stuff is going to go on them, anyway. keep the OS disks clean and free of shite. might back up my OS .isos and programs that I use.

>>106487603
>>106487632
ABORT THREAD

>>106487594
rebranded seagate

>>106487176 (OP)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/16d3uz7/comment/jzqc8me/

>>106487828
you need to go back

>>106487828
essentially they are not necessarily used, but, poorly binned HDDs.

is it worf to buy used HDDs just for "cold" storage? you put shit in there and forget about it forever unless you need it 1-2 years later

Got the little bitches to work on Windows formatted as BTRFS. Now to rape them with files. My main backup drive will be backed up on these. Game Installation files etc.

>>106487557
I was thinking of getting these drives but I've heard that MDD (MaxDigitalData) just repurposes old and abused enterprise drives and wipes the SMART data before selling them to you. I personally didn't go with them since they were only gonna give me a 3 month warranty... hope those drives server you well though anon :3

>>106487176 (OP)
Can't be arsed buying small drives like that, no matter how cheap. My NAS only has four bays and space inside my PCs is at a premium. But if it's more than enough space for you then fine, you got bargain.

Holy FUCK! They are transferring stupid fast on my SAS HBA! 28GB transfer took a minute. I'm transferring 264GB of PS3 GAMES etc it's topping out at 180MB/sec and climbing
>>106488153
I'll be sure to give an honest and thorough review a month from now

>>106487345
post NTFS capacity kike

>>106487765
(((linux)))

>>106487557
kys

>>106487176 (OP)
Pretty good OP. I buy used SAS drives too, but 4TB ones for around 22-25 a drive. A few died during a major power outage but the rest running fine after 2 years still.
SAS is great, specialty hardware that is very useful but also very cheap.

>>106487962
what the fuck is wrong with you

>>106489519
Umm, where do I start?

>>106487176 (OP)
Congrats anon, I just got my HDDs yesterday too. resyncing as I type. I found out the hard way my box only fits 1 3.5" so I'm going to have to get some velcro tape or something.

>>106487176 (OP)
throw them away, 3tb is small as fuck

>>106487399
>he doesn't have a $20 LSI card off ebay
ngmi

>>106487176 (OP)
Isn't 7200 rpm too loud? Or too BRRRRRR on your table?

>>106487557
>Why you fag/g/ots can't be happy for me?
People come here to be miserable anon.
I had to pay over 200€ for shitty 8tb drive :-(

>>106487176 (OP)
O.O
where do you get them for this price? Even if they only last half of what they are supposed to its still cheaper to put them in a RAID and replace a drive every couple of years considering how expensive new noes are now. Im jelly.

>>106487361
Full read/write test of all blocks, then see if that fails or produces any SMART errors or warnings

>>106490717
why not do a long self-test at that point?

>>106487557
loving it famalam, you be winning :)

>>106491069
I iz winnin' thanks to you mah niggah

>>106489519
what do you mean anon bro saar

>>106487557
i threw 4 used 4tb toshibas in my NAS a couple years ago, still going strong. If you use zfs just make sure to scrub often enough.

>>106490717
anon, I'm currently running "badblocks /dev/sda" on one of the disks and it squeaked and squealed like a cat being slaughtered for a good 10 minutes, then went silent, but, I can still see that the drive is fully active as shown in pic related, indicating the command and process is still running.

>>106490616
Not OP but I buy mine on eBay

is this hell? seeing this?

>>106491639
Fuck off jeet

>>106487557
There are obvious issues if they cost 20 euros, , space is fake, open them them there might be a sdcard inside, or simply quality i shit will die in 5 years

>>106491915
nah bro, these disks are spinning. no sdcards in here.

>>106491947
that is one good thing

>>106491956
no fake space either, if I get 5 years out of a 3TB SAS HDD that cost me $20 that's great. I don't see the problem. nice try with the FUD, tho. had me going. not really, but...it's just what you say to FUDsters like yourself

>>106491971
okay bro its not my money so idc

>>106487574
Hard to tell if you don't show your setup. It might not have enough breathing room, especially if it's sandwich'd between other HDDs or components.

>>106487962
That looks fantastic anon. How's btrfs on Windows? Last time I tried I had issues but it was years ago.

>>106492001
so far, so good. no hiccups, no complaints. I'm writing to one right now on windows and it seems to be doing just fine. these may not be refurbished in the sense of them being used and beaten up, but, poorly binned

>>106491973
how long do you expect $20 to last, retard?

>>106491973
>idc
yet, here you are. kys

>>106487962
Why not RAID doe

>>106492235
What raid setup do you recommend. One says 0 another said 5

>>106491612
linux mint looks like THAT?

>>106487557
errmm uhhhh
I am so happy for you that you bought
*looks at notes*
ermmm 3 used HDDs
congrats

>>106487176 (OP)
aren't old drives just as good for cold storage, such as picrel to clone drives then keep cold archives?

>>106493182
get more and run them in Raid 5 and keep some for cold storage

>>106493427
you prefer to hot swap to do cold storage?

>>106487594
Toshiba uses a similar brown on their NAS drives.

>>106494346
if I have to, yes. I'm running smartctl -t /dev/sda now, so far so good. will conclude some time tomorrow night. do you have any recommendations? I want to back up all my valued stuff onto these drives and run them in a raid array, but not sure how to go about doing it. do I let the OS or BIOS handle it?

I want to build a NAS using used drives probably 3-4

What should i get, most available are ironwolf, are they any good

>>106492431
>>106487962
Stripe across all of them or no balls

>>106494774
Raid 0 too risky. Living on the edge

>>106495633
you should explain:

raid 0 is raid -1. It has lower reliability than bare drives.

>>106492431
>>106494774
>>106495633

>>106495633
So no balls, I should have figured from the OP.

>>106490616
You can get 8tb for $70 on ebay

>>106495633
NO BALLS

three more hours for the resync

>>106497295
>>106497286
Why are you so concerned with another man's balls, anon?

>>106497488
Someone without balls like you wouldn't understand.

>>106497482
how can you check?

>>106497488
You'd have to have balls to be concerned with them

>>106487345
post nose