I got them for free from the place I work at! I might not be paid a lot, but things like this makes up for it.
SAS drives are often thrown away because they aren’t worth a lot (if you don’t mind used drives), maybe you can find a lot of good deals there, and since they are cheaper you can always get some spare drives, with a RAID 5 setup it’s kinda good
Well, SAS or SATA, it doesn’t matter for companies… Except if they keep it for spare, they just don’t want to be bothered to delete all the data on them. All drives I got was erased before I got them, some people just don’t want to see them go to e-waste, others don’t care…
Well, I will surely have a need for them in the future, just need to find it!
And good compensation maybe not but it’s better than nother else at all, especially since I’ve got lot of spinning drives that I’m using on my servers for free. Just replaced 24x 600GB with 24x1.2TB which is not bad for free storage I think
I got them for free from the place I work at! I might not be paid a lot, but things like this makes up for it.
SAS drives are often thrown away because they aren’t worth a lot (if you don’t mind used drives), maybe you can find a lot of good deals there, and since they are cheaper you can always get some spare drives, with a RAID 5 setup it’s kinda good
Damn thats cool! My work doesnt let me take drives old drives. Though we dont use sas drives so that might be why.
I certainly dont mind used drives for mass storage. I was planning to do some kinda raid anyways.
I haven’t gotten any kind of nas setup yet. Trying to avoid buying too much lol but good to know other folks are using sas drives too.
Well, SAS or SATA, it doesn’t matter for companies… Except if they keep it for spare, they just don’t want to be bothered to delete all the data on them. All drives I got was erased before I got them, some people just don’t want to see them go to e-waste, others don’t care…
Fair point. My company keeps drives that get taken out of servers for office use. After that theyre recycled.
Really? Being given stuff you don’t have a need or use for is good compensation to you?
Well, I will surely have a need for them in the future, just need to find it!
And good compensation maybe not but it’s better than nother else at all, especially since I’ve got lot of spinning drives that I’m using on my servers for free. Just replaced 24x 600GB with 24x1.2TB which is not bad for free storage I think