<div dir="ltr"><div>Personally, I use refurbished SAS disks from eBay. I purchsed 10 Helios 8TB disks for my TrueNAS upgrade a year ago. 8 installed, 2 cold spares. They usually ship with thousands of hours of runtime, but the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) is in the millions of hours. They're designed to just keep running. Mine are listed as 2.5 million hours. Yes, take this number with a grain of salt; this is theoretical; it's a calculation based on how many drives failed over a time period. This is why I purchas two spares. It gives me time to order another while the spare drive resilvers.<br><br></div><div>The advantage is they tend to be 50% - 80% cheaper, depending on the seller and market... I got mine for just under $100CAD each. $14.99 shipping for the lot.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I have worked with these people for many years, as far back as the early 90s --</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.realitybytescomputers.com/" target="_blank">https://www.realitybytescomputers.com/</a></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I get an email blast from them on a weekly basis and the last email showed 4 pcs of 2TB 3.5" drives, brand/model unknown. Expect them to be $40(or less) each.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">They may have larger capacities, not sure.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Worth an email/call/visit I think.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">They are in Elmira.<br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM Anton Avramov via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hey Community,<br>
<br>
I have zfs setup with 3 x 1T raidz and 2 x 2T mirror disks bringing the <br>
total capacity to 4T.<br>
<br>
One of the 1T seams to be failing and needs to be replaces, so I tough <br>
it's time for upgrade.<br>
<br>
Does any of you have recommendation there to get disks with lets say at <br>
least 6T capacity at reasonable price?<br>
<br>
Maybe some refurbished? Could you share your experiences?<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
<br>
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