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    <p>Thank you all for the suggestions and shared experience. <br>
      You definitely gave me some options and things to think and
      research. <br>
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    <p>And special thanks to Jason who have graciously provided 1TB
      drive to replace my failing one and even 1 spare!<br>
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    <p>Thanks Jason!<br>
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    <p>It took almost 2 days to resilver 863G which is strange (I think)
      but then again I still use the disks all the time.<br>
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    <p>Now that my zpool is ONLINE again lets just hope I don't waste my
      time on other tasks before actually deciding on an upgrade path
      before it is too late. <br>
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    <p>Thank you all again.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2025-01-14 13:55, Colin Mackay
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        <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>
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        <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>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at
          9:14 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com"
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                class="gmail_default">I have worked with these people
                for many years, as far back as the early 90s --</div>
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                class="gmail_default"><a
                  href="https://www.realitybytescomputers.com/"
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              <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>
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                class="gmail_default">They may have larger capacities,
                not sure.</div>
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                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>
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                      <div>Ron S.<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at
              1:37 PM Anton Avramov via kwlug-disc <<a
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              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>
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              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>
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              Thank you<br>
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