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Enterprise SAS SSD are just built different... two layers, and takes up all the space it can.

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All Metal too! I don't have a use for them right now but I'm sure I'll find out something! (I have 14 of them...)

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I don't have a use for them

Not having a use for extra storage. Wow.
Anyway: !datahoarder@lemmy.ml
- glances at their 32TB NAS
  
  No I'm not.
  
  Rust
  
  Those are puny mortal numbers.... my backup nas is more than twice that.......
- It's not very efficient to have an array of 2TB drives versus a single 16TB drive for example. That's a lot of extra required power and ports for little gain under home use.
- I'm not in the need of really fast storage... normal spinning rust storage, I have plenty of!
Hey it’s me, your cousin…
- My family might grow exponantially with all the cousin ahah
  
  Yeah, it's crazy how many cousins WE have . . .
- Niko, is that you? Wanna go bowling.
  
  Nah sorry Roman, I gotta take Michelle out today

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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Also, SAS -> Serial Attached SCSI
With the SATA acronym it seems to have trouble resolving the AT, so I became curious. Here's what I've found:

"AT" was IBM's abbreviation for "Advanced Technology"; thus, many companies and organizations indicate SATA is an abbreviation of "Serial Advanced Technology Attachment". However, the ATA specifications simply use the name "AT Attachment", to avoid possible trademark issues with IBM.

I’d always get industrial or enterprise hardware. It’s just better.
- It's also significantly more expensive 😭
  
  Secondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.
- Indeed it is.
There are companies that sell parts from used servers, e.g. SAS controllers for PCI.
- Well, I have servers that takes SAS drives so I don't need this kind of hardware for the moment!
Are they cheaper or more expensive than the high density consumer SSDs?
- usually more expensive per tb, but for a data center not that much because you can get more storage in a single rack than you otherwise would with peasant 8 tb ssds.
No use for them you say 🤔

I was actually just looking at buying some sas spinning drives for a nas. Found a seller on Amazon thats unfortunately gone before i could buy em but it was a pretty good deal. Where do you buy yours from?
- I got them for free from the place I work at! I might not be paid a lot, but things like this makes up for it.
  
  SAS drives are often thrown away because they aren't worth a lot (if you don't mind used drives), maybe you can find a lot of good deals there, and since they are cheaper you can always get some spare drives, with a RAID 5 setup it's kinda good
  
  I might not be paid a lot, but things like this makes up for it.
  
  Really? Being given stuff you don't have a need or use for is good compensation to you?
  
  Damn thats cool! My work doesnt let me take drives old drives. Though we dont use sas drives so that might be why.
  
  I certainly dont mind used drives for mass storage. I was planning to do some kinda raid anyways.
  
  I haven't gotten any kind of nas setup yet. Trying to avoid buying too much lol but good to know other folks are using sas drives too.
The board interconnectors are gorgeous, I love the simplicity.
Only 1.92 Tb? But 12Gb/s 😊 nice, like half of the speed of my internet 😂😜

😮wait, nonono, internet is only 25Gbit/s not byte, woops

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