I just browsed eBay a bit and saw that older, used SAS drives can be had pretty cheap - 30€ for 4TB, but of course rather old drives, sometimes 10 years old.

Now, I wouldn't expect ultra reliable, ultra fast, super cheap drives here. But this offer seems compelling, even buying a spare drive for higher redundancy would still be pretty cheap.

Question is: am I too optimistic here? Are these drives bound to fail within 3 months?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320

The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking.

Captain's note: This OC was originally posted in reddit but it's quality makes me wants to ensure a copy survices in lemmy as well.

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We will setup the following applications in this guide:

• Docker
• AdguardHome Adblocker for all your devices
• Jellyfin/Plex For watching the content you download
• Qbittorrent Torrent downloader
• Jackett Torrent indexers provider
• Flaresolverr For auto solving captcha in some of the indexers
• Sonarr arr service for automatically downloading TV shows
• Radarr arr service for movies
• Readarr arr service for (audio)books
• lidarr arr service for music
• Bazarr Automatica