arclight415 @ arclight415 @alien.top BOT Posts 0Comments 2Joined 1 yr. ago
We had an old Hitachi 9200 disk array stay up for about 12 years with maybe 1-2 disk replacements. Those were very well built systems and at the time, Hitachi companies manufactured everything in them from the drives to the paint to the screws.
I uses these in my home server, solely because you can fit tow of them sideways into a single 3.5" bay if you use right-angle power connectors. I screw them down to a piece of stiff plastic sheet and then use Velcro to hold that down. I run Proxmox and put them in a ZFS mirror. My VMs and containers run off a small NVMe or mirroed SSDs in the replication server.
That being said, these things work fine for a home file/backup server and don't use much power. Don't expect much more out of them and use solid state storage for your hot data.