Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it? (slrpnk.net)

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Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use the disks for his own server. Was therefore wondering if you peeps have ever done this and if there any downsides to it at all?

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[-] TheHolm@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Why create yourself a headache and still get substandard and no-warranty drive. If you want cheaper drives go for reconditioned/refurbished/used drives. Same risks, better product. Old enterprise SAS drives are cheap and many still have plenty of heath in them.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Do keep in mind that you need a SAS controller for that, which can cost between $50-200

[-] Natal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Do you have places where you can buy those old business drives? Are there websites for this market?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

https://serverpartdeals.com/

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

And maybe some juicy data to recover 😏 honestly, which enterprise sells its old drives? That is calling for a data leak, isn’t it?

[-] TheHolm@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

Many sells, some just wipe them, some just contains encrypted data. If you happy with just used drive eBay is full of surprises.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The ones that aren't forced to care by regulators. So basically anyone that isn't finance or defense.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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