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0GB!
That was the cheapest option. 🤭
I just thought it was funny that they put it on a big sticker on front of the box instead of something like “storage not included” in small print somewhere.
Came to post the same. Seems like the most awkward possible way to phrase that.
Your “Disks not included” suggestion, or heck, just “empty” would surely be better.
What are you putting in them?
- 8x 8TB in a set of 2, some shucked WDs, some IronWolfs
- 5x 16TB in a set of 2, “recertified” WDs from serverpartdeals.com
Sweet, just backing up the family photos then?
And probably a bunch of Linux ISOs.
What are you connecting them to?
Two machines. A main server/workstation and a small off-site backup machine that runs the same services but hass less compute and RAM.
You should take a look at getting sas enclosures. They’re pretty cheap, like $200 for a 16 bay. That will be so much more reliable.
I thought about it, but it typically requires extra PCIe cards that I can’t rely on as there’s no space in one of the machines and no PCIe slots in the other. That’s why I did a careful search till I stumbled upon this particular enclosure and then I tested one with ZFS for over a week before buying the rest.
That makes sense. I’m a lazy guy and I didn’t want to try testing so I went with a known quantity.
Here’s the box test thread if you’re curious. 😊
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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