Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use the disks for his own server. Was therefore wondering if you peeps have ever done this and if there any downsides to it at all?

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    IMO, if you want the beast deals right now on a 12+ TB HDD, you should use serverpartdeals.com instead. I’ve got 2 manufacturer recertified 14 TB enterprise-grade drives from them and it was way cheaper than buying any 14 TB external drive.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      Im based in scandinavia so wont be able to buy from there, but thanks anyway!

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        71·
        7 months ago

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