December 24, 20178 yr I just removed 5 2TB and 1 1.5TB drive from my server to go all 4/8TB's... The drives are all good; no SMART issues, but they're all well out of warranty. Are they worth selling at all?
December 25, 20178 yr Depends who you sell to. Sometimes buyers are real pain in the ass, but sometimes they can be reasonable. Personally, I use the drives in external enclosures for various game consoles for game storage, since game saves are saved to the cloud as well it doesnt matter as much if the drive crashes so you just need to redownload the game(s) onto a different drive.
December 25, 20178 yr I use old array drives to create rotating offsite backups of my most critical files.
December 25, 20178 yr Old drives that are too small to be meaningful to keep running because of the electricity bill I repurpose as offline backup drives. Just remember that offline backup disks should at least 1-2 times/year be spun up and run an extended SMART test on, to give the drive a chance to notice weak sectors that needs to be rewritten or moved.
December 25, 20178 yr On 12/24/2017 at 5:55 PM, JustinAiken said: I just removed 5 2TB and 1 1.5TB drive from my server to go all 4/8TB's... The drives are all good; no SMART issues, but they're all well out of warranty. Are they worth selling at all? Ill buy one or 2 of the 2tb drives. As long as the price is right!
December 26, 20178 yr I have an older 2T drive (HGST 7200 RPM) drive that I use as a DL disk, carrying weight of DL, validity checking and repairing. Takes this wear and tear off the SSD. It it's mounted as a UD. But most are used for backups. For a while I had 2 of them in RAID0 for 4T parity, but parity is 8T now, and not going to create a 4x2T RAID0 parity, although would probably work very well.
December 26, 20178 yr Author 23 hours ago, Gary489 said: Ill buy one or 2 of the 2tb drives. As long as the price is right! PM'd!
January 5, 20188 yr On 25/12/2017 at 2:21 AM, trurl said: I use old array drives to create rotating offsite backups of my most critical files. Do you mind telling me, what docker you use for this?
January 5, 20188 yr 7 hours ago, hilljd00 said: Do you mind telling me, what docker you use for this? No docker, rsync script.
January 5, 20188 yr 3 minutes ago, hilljd00 said: Awesome! Is it easy to do? See first post in Unassigned Devices thread.
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