If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? - eviltoast

Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    In defence, the power prizing here is a tad different, €0.45/KWh was the prize here. Also, when those disks are given away, they are usually smaller then the current standard and less efficient. On the other hand, those enterprise grade disks generate some heat, saving on the heating bill.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOP
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      9 months ago

      that’s all true. I’m anxious to get them open and see what they test at; it really seems like some of them are unused, but that could just be because they were refurbished and re-packaged. I’m really curious what the spin times are.