Used SAS storage used to be cheap because it fell in the perfect gulf of being no longer useful in the enterprise space but not so worn down that consumer applications couldn't make use of it so long as someone had an HBA.But now even the used stuff feels prohibitively expensive (at least for larger capacities like 10TB).
>>108006695The times of cheap hardware are over.
>>108007450The thing is this is USED storage. They've been running for awhile now, long before prices went haywire.I accept used storage as a risk but I pay accordingly, especially for such a consumer-unfriendly standard (and the stuff is generally healthly enough for light workloads, like what a consumer might want a hard disk for compared to enterprise-level 24/7 zero-downtime situations). That risk isn't worth it when to buy this now will cost well over double but it's not like brand new SAS storage is affordable either.
>>108007555I'd recommend buying factory recertified drives instead.
>>108007585plain non-refurbished used drives are perfectly fine (or at least were, when they were dirt cheap)
