Over in the HL15 Production Update thread, there was a large discussion about different HDD options, especially where to buy hard drives to maximize TB per dollar spent. Using 20 TB HDDs, 15 of them would cost around $4500, maxing out the storage capacity at 300 TB (assuming RAID 0, lol).
But please feel free to post about different deals, ideal options for the HL15, and places where people should look to buy both new and used drives.
I’ve personally bought from Amazon, Micro Center, and NewEgg, and have favored Micro Center mostly because I can visually inspect the boxes for the drives, and ensure they haven’t already been through a shredder and a rain storm before arriving on my porch
For larger bulk buys, I know 45Drives has partnered with HDSTOR, but that may be out of the purchasing range for many of the homelabbers and SMBs that are in the market for a 45Homelab server currently.
Some of the resources and sites mentioned in the thread:
Yes, I bought 10 of those. They are in transit to me, should get them monday. The 5 other slots will be filled by other HDD I have in my current Frankeinstein Supermicro CSE-836 case (2 x 12TB, 3 x 10TB). The rest of my HDD in that CSE-836 (13 x 8TB) will go in my Synology DS1621+ (replacing mix and match HDD) and 4 in my new Ubiquiti UNVR
EDIT ***
I received the HDD yesterday (saturday!). The shipping boxes were excellent with disk spaced and every disk is sealed individually within the best foam that can ben use for shipping disks. I haven’t test them yet, i’ll wait for the HL15 to show up.
I did see an order number in the 200’s somewhere posted in these forums, assuming everyone aims for 15 new drives, that’s merely 3000 drives—a drop in the bucket
Nonetheless, begs the question: why did the prices trend up recently?
Perhaps “supply chain” or “real” inflation is getting reflected in these charts, at last(?)
