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Guess I should buy that external HDD before the PC market completely shits itself (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I've been meaning to get an external backup for a few years but I've been kicking the can down the road in hopes of finding some kind of amazing deal on a huge drive but even the 4TB drives I set as my baseline seem to be getting more expensive.

I'm afraid that with all the AI fuckery going on the prices and availability of everything is gonna go the way of RAM and I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet now

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[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Depending on what you're doing with them, used enterprise SAS drives are a good buy. I built a NAS a few years ago around 4 6TB SAS drives I bought used off ebay. I had to buy a SAS card, but I was still only out like $450 for the entire machine including power supply, case, card, and motherboard. I went with a fanless industrial board which limited me a little bit but I still have 24TB of deep storage running Unraid for cheaper than an off-the-shelf solution.

edit: actually it's six 6TB drives, two of them are parity drives. One of the parity drives is new, for extra redundancy.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Currently I'm just looking for an external backup for the shit I want to keep since I currently have nothing backed up. I have multiple drives on my PC and some of the most critical files I've duplicated on a few of them in case one of them croaks but I'd like the peace of mind of having all of my accumulated files backed up properly. Yes, I know you should have like 3 backups but just 1 would be an improvement for me currently

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you've got the space in your desktop case, an SAS card and used enterprise drive is a solid bet but probably not the cheapest if you're only adding a single drive

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Used drives are prone to failure, at minimum I would use 3 of them in raid5 to avoid data loss

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

If it's just a storage drive I wouldn't even spin it up except to store or retrieve data, but you're certainly correct that they're riskier. You can test drives, of course, but there's a risk.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Skip the SAS so you don't need a separate card, use SATA enterprise drives and it's smooth sailing.