xinayder

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Where to buy cheap HDDs in EU? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[โ€“] xinayder@infosec.pub 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they have some sort of speed degradation forced by the firmware? I read on Reddit that some of they may have a firmware that slows them down so they will never be as fast as an internal HDD. Did you notice something similar?

Where to buy cheap HDDs in EU? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[โ€“] xinayder@infosec.pub 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I see some WD Elements external HDDs and they seem to be cheaper than internal HDDs. I don't know if they're worth it, though. For example, a 5TB one is about $130.

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Where to buy cheap HDDs in EU? (infosec.pub)
 

I'm sketching the idea of building a NAS in my home, using a USB RAID enclosure (which may eventually turn into a proper NAS enclosure).

I haven't got the enclosure yet but that's not that big of a deal, right now I'm thinking whether to buy HDDs for the storage (currently have none) to setup RAID, but I cannot find good deals on HDDs.

I found on reddit that people were buying high capacity drives for as low as $15/TB, e.g. paying $100 for 10/12TB drives, but nowadays it's just impossible to find drives at a bargain price, thanks to AI datacenters, I guess.

In Europe I've heard of datablocks.dev where you can buy white-label or recertified Seagate disks, sometimes you can find refurbished drives in eBay, but I can't find these bargain deals everyone seemed to have up until last year?

For example, is 134 EUR for a 6TB refurbished Toshiba HDD a good price, considering the price hikes? What price per TB should I be looking for to consider the drives cheap? Where else can I search for these cheap drives?

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[โ€“] xinayder@infosec.pub 6 points 6 months ago

Authentik supports more authentication types and I think it's more stable so you can use it in larger production servers. VoidAuth seems to be a lightweight alternative that only provides OIDC.