Hello all,
I am finally in the market for some SAS/SATA SSD's for my home server. I find that SAS SSD's are incredibly expensive unless purchased used/recertified. I also find that consumer SSD's (Samsung EVO, PNY, etc) are more easily affordable in the used market. I understand that enterprise SSD's offer significantly more long-term durability and can handle much more wear, so that should be taken into the equation.
My use case is to replace some SAS HDD's in my R740 that runs proxmox for my homelab/personal use. I do host some things that I consider critical so reliability is high on my list of important factors.
To this, I pose some questions:
1: What factors do you consider when contemplating purchasing...
Hello all,
I am finally in the market for some SAS/SATA SSD's for my home server. I find that SAS SSD's are incredibly expensive unless purchased used/recertified. I also find that consumer SSD's (Samsung EVO, PNY, etc) are more easily affordable in the used market. I understand that enterprise SSD's offer significantly more long-term durability and can handle much more wear, so that should be taken into the equation.
My use case is to replace some SAS HDD's in my R740 that runs proxmox for my homelab/personal use. I do host some things that I consider critical so reliability is high on my list of important factors.
To this, I pose some questions:
1: What factors do you consider when contemplating purchasing such drives?
2: What is an acceptable and unacceptable range of TB written, power-on hours, etc?
3: What should I be wary of when shopping in this market?
4: Do you recommend any sources? (I have been scouring eBay, and I am familiar with a few used server part sites like savemyserver, serverpartdeals and such, but I value your recommendations!)
5: Any other related miscellaneous advice?
Thank you for any input!