Subj : Upgrade.
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Nick Boel
Date : Mon Nov 03 2025 05:38 pm

Hey Mark!

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:24:10 , you wrote:

 > If it wasn't for the shipping, I have at least 20-30 2TB enterprise
 > drives that could go to a good home.  They are just taking up space and
 > I'll never use them, but have yet to toss them.

 > I had pulled them many years ago from my Supermicro servers.  They came
 > with those drives and I replaced them with 8TB drives at the time, and
 > now 14TB drives and some SSDs.

Those 20-30 2TB drives aren't by chance 2.5" and come with caddies, hmm? :)

I've been poking around Ebay and Amazon looking for something older/renewed like a Dell 730xd or an HP DL380 (2U) that wouldn't break the bank, and just so happens the cost goes up quite a bit when storage is included in them. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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