What do you think about buying second hand disks and using higher redundancy?

For example 4x 16TB in RAIDz2? Is anyone using something like that? How’s it performing, reliability-wise?

E: Thanks all for the opinions and information!

  • Avid AmoebaOP
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    10 months ago

    Hot damn these are cheap!

    For $600 I could get 32TB array in:

    • 4x 16TB manufacturer recertified, 2-disk redundancy
    • 3x 16TB new, from interesting sellers, 1-disk redundancy

    A 1-disk redundancy 32TB array sold from Newegg would be closer to $900. I could get 3-disk redundancy 32TB array from these guys for that much. 🤔🤔🤔