• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    I had purchased first 12TB drive for 4 bay NAS last summer. These are fuckton expensive so couldnt get all 4. I finally saved up and bought 2nd 12TB drive to get to RAID 1 for redundancy. Not even month passed, WD reports no more drives. Shop where I got one reports out of stock. FUCK!

    Fuck AI and fuck big tech. I got my 12tb cloud and will give you 0 money in near future.

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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      7 hours ago

      You can still go with unraid and buy more, smaller drives. Buy used SAS drives and an HBA. I recently bought a refurbished Dell optiplex with 32 gigs of ram and some i5 processor off eBay for 100€. SAS drives are really loud and consume more energy than consumer HDDs, but they last very long and are way cheaper.

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      5 hours ago

      Realistically it’s worse than that right? Where is your second and third 12tb drive for back ups? Raid is a nice to have but meaningless when it comes to back ups.

    • heatermcteets@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah. I have a RAIDz2 on super old version of FreeNAS. 8x4TB.

      I’ve been needing to upgrade for about a year now. I’ve been waiting for the prices to go lower…. News about WD forced my hand for 8x18TB. Not $$ I was looking to spend, but fomo that my upgrade could now be much further away pushed me to just do it. :(