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I picked the worst era to build a NAS. I bought 8x 4TB NAS RED 5400RPM HDD and paid in total AUD$1.4k, I am not even joking. My pool is only 8TB mirrorer and I
by h4kunamata 7mo ago
I picked the worst era to build a NAS.
I bought 8x 4TB NAS RED 5400RPM HDD and paid in total AUD$1.4k, I am not even joking. My pool is only 8TB mirrorer and I am keeping the other 16TB as spare because things will get worse.
I bought them brand new because used ones cannot be trusted but even that brings risks.
WD has been selling 7200RPM labelled as 5400RPM disks.
WD was selling SMR disks instead of CMR disks.
Seagate disks used into crypto farms are being sold as brand new, so folks are finding our their brand new disks have 65k hours.
- HDBaseT 7mo agoLikewise. I was planning on upgrading my disks about a year ago, but help holding off for discounts. The AI race to the bottom, driving up prices only really started happening within the last 12 months (at least for HDDs) and now I'm too late.
- h4kunamata 7mo agoI am sticking to DDR4 which you can still pay AUD$47 for DDR4 8GB 2133 I had two Dell SFF with i7 LGA1151, I bought second hand motherboard on eBay which goes against my standard, because everything is so ridiculous expensive, to use those CPUs and memories. I have a few DDR4 2400 memories. My TrueNAS is running local brand SSD that are dirty cheap and for being in mirror gives me a somewhat peace of mind. I bought a WD Black NVMe as spare for my gaming laptop running Linux in case it dies, and 2x Crucial one from Amazon German, I won't be buying them any decade soon. Things are bad but it is better to buy things now while you can, if you don't and with things getting worse, second hand market will also become a carnage. Facebook Marketplace is usually a gold garden to buy good goods for cheap, even there now things are matching eBay prices. You can still find solid and cheap stuff but things are starting to change.