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[–] hiddenSin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

3 x 16Tb Seagate disks. One is for parity. So around 29Tb of space. Got them used about 2 years ago.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

When you got them, how many hours were they at?

The HDD I see around me have 60k hours ++ so I am a bit frisky considering what they ask for

[–] hiddenSin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think around 20.000 hours or about 2+ years.

[–] shaztopher@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

lol that’s almost 7 years? Insane they lasted that long to begin with

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I bought some low capacity SSD for 20$ each to install Proxmox and Proxmox Backup Server and was lucky that they both had only roughly 800 hours only, so that at least worked out for me