Seller currently has 13 drives listed.
2021 or 2022 year used Drives. For comparison a new one of these drives is $884.35 from PBtech.
White Label Data Center grade hard disks. CMR
Data sheet here:
https://www.e4company.com/wp-content/uploads/data-sheet-ultr…
No affiliation, but have purchased a bunch of these over the past months. Done a full smart scan on each one, and no issues so far. Most cost effective way I have been able to find to fill my NAS.
Eleven decimal places is close enough for me 😆
I remember (Jeez I feel old) when it would cost about $3.00 per gb. I worked for an ex lease hardware company about 20 years ago.
It's all about $/TB now. (with in general larger drives being worth a premium due to less space and power use per TB)
You think that's showing your age… In my day I remember buying a ~900MB double-bay 5.25" hard drive to upgrade our 100MB hard drive. Cost about $1/MB in around 1990 (iirc). I also remember thinking there was no way we would ever fill it.
LOL
Dad bought an IBM compatible in the '80s with TWO 30 MB Hard drives. we thought he was nuts, how could you ever fill one 30 MB drive, let alone two.
Can someone bring this grandpa home, he's punching 8 bits cards again!
@Mellow Kiwi: As a kid we had an Amstrad CPC6128 with a whole 128KB.
I thought it was awesome - particularly paired with our colour dot matrix printer!
@Mellow Kiwi: Young kids these days… I was specifically commenting about a hard drive purchase and $/MB, but if you want retro wars:
I grew up with a BBC Micro B, with a massive 32KB RAM, OS in ROM and NO disks, not even floppies. My brother and I typed our programs in. We had to hook up our ghetto blaster's mic input and aux output to save and load programs from cassette tape - if we wanted it to last beyond a reboot. They stored a whopping ~100kB or so per side. We used to mark the cassette with a pen on the see-through window so you know roughly where to fast forward to, then start playing so you could load the desired program.
Disks and random access… Hah! You kids had it so good!
Now get off my lawn… 👴
How does this compare to getting from the famous ServerPartDeals or similar US companies like GoHardDrive?
What are your views on this against the seagates?
Just for comparison I recently got x2 new 0 hour (supposedly) Seagate Exos X16 16TB drives from East Digital for $322nz each delivered.
Damn I just want some 2tb ones for a nas haha these are massive
I have some 2TB Seagate's you're welcome to if want them?
Came out of my NAS years ago. Still fine AFAIK
Good to know as recently i converted my old laptop dell precision 3510 6 th gen Intel , into a webapp server, linux mint ( based os) + casa os (ui layer )running docker with jellyfin ( media server ) + usb 4 tb hard drive slow but works ok ,
I was and am thinking of making a nas server running promox with open media vault / debian , and this information about possibilities to get cheap3.5 inch hdd i will now plan to source either old desktop tower or make new nas server out of scratch .
Has any one in the same boat or done this .
One option is getting a hdd bay and connect it to thunderbolt to old think center or ThinkPad 8 th gen Intel or amd or some other brand like hp dell
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Or just get apu and motherboard and get a 4 or6 bay nas enclosure tower .
I personally use an Odroid H2 & it kicks butt.
Atom processor, 16GB RAM, nvme + 2x 14TB drives.
Runs many docker containers and streams Plex with no issues to many clients (including transcoding in iGPU)
This is all in the size of half a toaster.
The new Odroid H4+/Ultra is a beast. You can get a nvme to SATA expander as well if you want more drives.
Ultra efficient, low power and small footprint.
I will study this
pbtech not good for comparison. b&h regularly sell 18 tb whites in external cases for ~300 USD (240-330 USD is my buying range so far). So usually ~550 NZD new.
![[Used] Western Digital 18TB DC HC550 SATA Hard Disk (22,000-30,000 Hours) $305-$350 Delivered @ Nz1997 via Trade Me](https://files.cheapies.nz/n/98/50698.jpg?h=a9d98d50)
For anyone curious:
22,000 hours = 916.66667 days
916.66667 days = 2.51141553425 years