Tell me why i'm silly for buying used drives

LeperousDust · 7 Mar 2018 at 19:52

Just bought a few used 2tb SAS drives, nothing mission critical, will be loads of redundancy involved, so now i've just went ahead and done it anyway, does everyone fancy telling me why I shouldn't have done so?

LeperousDust · 7 Mar 2018 at 21:34

Awesome, kinda my thinking.

At £18 for 2tb it was hard not to in my mind, I shall track failure I guess

LeperousDust · 11 Mar 2018 at 10:29

LizardKing said:
proper SAS? as in not glorified sata drives with the sas interface
but as Armageus says, drives tend to fail in the first few months or years later, so if they have a bit of usage its likely no big deal.

Oh I'm not sure what the difference is, I just have a serverraid M1015 card so thought i'd use it, I haven't really looked into the big differences, as this is purely just I'd like a lot of storage really.

LizardKing said:
And also this?

8 x ST32000444SS £149.99 & free postage on some little known site where you bid for things.

And another 3 Hitachi 1tb drives in that shot for good measure for £19 with free postage, yet to be tested mind, I have too many other things to do right now with work.

LeperousDust · 18 Mar 2018 at 17:10

Ok, so they're here, and I'm ready to put them in my uraid box, whats the best way to stress test them, and make sure theyre all ok, or ditch the bad ones? Either way it's going to take a while, and I want to do it right once...

Windows, or unraid (looks like unraid doesnt support preclear properly anymore) solutions if possible. But nothing stopping me loading up Linux on my main box.

On my windows box its looking like HDTune or HDDScan are the still the options for low level scanning? HDDScan has been marked as discontinued?

//Edit: Ended up going with HDSentinal, its bloody awesome!

LeperousDust · 3 Apr 2018 at 00:17

Many (many) days later, because i've been busy and testing obviously takes forever.... anyway I have some total gems

2 with only 25 days power on time with 5.6 and 23tb of writes resp, including my surface disk reinitialise.
3 with 238 days with 5, 5 and 16tb writes
3 with 2038 days but all only 5.6tb writes

All with 100% passes in pretty much every metric on a full surface reinitialise and test.

Full details here if anyone really (unlikely) cares:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TPqtH19f9tEQ50NiLDHz_-v6fmvOLV9F