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Are SAS drives currently the "correct" move?

Reddit r/DataHoarder·u/Sneet1·about 1 month ago
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Are SAS drives currently the "correct" move? So like many I timed my project a bit too late to catch the cheaper HDDs. It does not seem like prices are going down anytime soon, so I started to compare the lowest possible prices I could find for reasonable grade drives at high capacities, price per TB. Criteria was: \- ebay sold listings or active amazon listings. \- not broken or defective, not used chia mining \- totally human, but i looked from prices that were generally clustered from big sellers and not including outliers. Roughly, I found that between \~10-24tb, sas was always a few bucks cheaper per tb, with SATA around 14-18 and SATA 18-24 . Which is historically always the case. But that makes the math for say 2x 12tb drives, you save about $70 between two drives. Add a controller card for $40, and you're trading SATA ease of use for SAS always up reliability and added wattage (read speeds can be better, but likely lost benefit here).…

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