If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? (midwest.social)

submitted 9 months ago by archomrade@midwest.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel

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[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

I would haunt eBay for an old file bay, such as an HP Proliant or a NetApp, then get an HBA card, and hope there is a spot in my house that isn't going to be bothered by the noise. There's a seller called theartofserver on eBay that repurposes old enterprise grade stuff for self hosting use, and I got a card that connected a NetApp file bay to my old 4th gen gaming rig, and that's where all my files live now. I've lost a few drives over the years, but no files.

[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago

Wait... New answer! I'd give them to the first guy who replied to me on Lemmy! He would be very appreciative.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Would he‽

[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Yup! Definitely.

[-] didnt_readit@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Haha crazy to randomly come across that name on Lemmy. I bought a bunch of the parts for my NAS/Proxmox server from that seller a couple years ago.

[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Me too! Are you me? Oh no, I've finally lost it... I'm talking to myself.

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