Best gigabyte/$ source of storage solutions?
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theguywithacomputer · 2023-12-03 22:05

I read a year or two ago people were buying used hard drives in bulk
and stress testing them in something like a 40% failure rate and
keeping the 60%, so basically buying 10 hard drives to get six. Does
someone have information on this?

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NikStalwart · 2023-12-04 00:55

r/datahoarder is your best bet.

The absolute *best* $/gigabyte is going to be tape. Yes, tape. But,
while the medium is cheap, the drives are a whole different story.

I don't know about that whole stress-test-to-failure thing. Seems odd
to me because the 60 per cent of drives that did not fail *yet* might
just fail as soon as you load in vital data, in part because of the
unnecessary stress of the stress test.

The second-cheapest option is to "shuck" external hard drives (buy WD
Elements/EasyStore, destroy the plastic casing, chuck the drive into
your box). You lose warranty, but you get much, much cheaper drives.

If you buy large capacity (so 12TB+), you are liable to get binned
enterprise/NAS drives instead of complete crap.

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theguywithacomputer · 2023-12-04 02:52

thank you

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cdbessig · 2023-12-04 03:49

Why is it that shucked drives are cheaper?

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NikStalwart · 2023-12-04 03:52

Two things: firstly, you don't get the same warranty from the
manufacturer (typically 2 years for external vs 5 years for enterprise
internal) the drives that are sold as external tend to be "binned"
(i.e.  enterprise drives that failed some QA test or another but are
nevertheless functional).

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