What do you think about buying second hand disks and using higher redundancy?

For example 4x 16TB in RAIDz2? Is anyone using something like that? How’s it performing, reliability-wise?

E: Thanks all for the opinions and information!

  • Honytawk
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    10 months ago

    It all depends on how safe you want your data to be.

    Second Hard drives should be fine with enough redundancy.

    I’d rather run 2 secondhand drives in Raid 1 than a single new drive.