Browsing newegg and found this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822146134&ignorebbr=1
I love these drives, have 4 running in Raid5 on my poweredge at home. Just in case anyone is interested.
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These might be good for the RAID card I just bought. nice.
The refurb might give pause for some, but... they're Hitachi drives, they're Ultrastars, they should be fine.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind it for raid, but I wouldn't want it to hold the only copy of any of my data. Paranoia pays off.
Buy four and put in Raid Z10.
In any case, RAID is no substitute for a backup anyway.
doett
i got 5(limit) 7k3000s in the last 30$ sale
they all had just over 2years uptime but only 20-30 power cycles (only 1 had 1 relocated sector)
all highway miles lul
That's why i'm running Raid5, i'm paranoid about my data too. I managed to get my hands on a Dell LTO 4 tape drive, so now my data is backed up to tape once a week, along with daily backups to a separate rsync server.
Un raid has more redundancy than raid 5.
Gett'n learn't with Wendell.
Seems like it's still going to die pretty quick, but I guess 2TB for $30 can't be beat, Think I'd just shell out the money for 2TB WD Reds though...
Had 4 of these same model drives running in my server 24/7 for alittle over a year now, with light to sometimes medium load put on them. So far they've held up nicely.
I've dealt with a lot of referb Hitachi server drives from around that age, and eh, don't buy em. The one I dealt with had 60k power-on hours, took a long time to spin up, needed external cooling, and were really slow.
A lot of the reviews also point toward a lot of the drives being DOA, so they are probably similar to the drives that i've dealt with. I wouldn't recommend them for anything.