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Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use the disks for his own server. Was therefore wondering if you peeps have ever done this and if there any downsides to it at all?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes I’ve done it. What sucks is you make a lot of trash this way. Also double and triple check that the drives you buy will have standard sata connectors on them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I like the trash to hook up any hard drive via USB.

[–] JustARegularNerd 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah one of these is literally my primary USB 3.0 to SATA adapter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But you don’t need 8 of them, do you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You never know.

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