100% this. People who store easily replaceable media on RAID are just throwing away money (unless you have a need for faster read/write). If it's your family photos, copy of your in progress thesis, or other irreplaceable piece of info/content go for it.

I have like 40tb Unraid NAS and I get asked pretty much every time I talk to someone about it how I do backups. Easy, I backup my *arr stack databases and in case of a failure I restore them and let it pull down everything over time. Which I have done in the past when I wanted to upgrade quality, easier for me to scrub it all and start over than make upgrade profiles and such.

Or that's what I would have done, now I mostly use DebridService du jour and Stremio :-)

Oh totally, could do SATA instead of SAS too. I used to build out servers and render farms for motion graphics studios that needed the ability for multiple people to be doing high-bandwidth operations on the same network drive, and the above was just kind of the default offering.

$10/TB is a bit low, but not far off. Serverpartdeals has refurbed enterprise/NAS drives at about $15/TB right now, and thats with the AI pressure driving up prices. I recall seeing 18TB drives around $12/TB a few months back.

The above is well loved vendor in the IT space. Much better place to buy from than Amazon, as they actually guarantee their inventory is legitimate.

It seems this post was locked down for some reason so I couldn't reply sooner.

Here you go -

$10.61/TB - HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080AL5200 | 0F23268 | 8TB 7.2K RPM 128MB Cache SAS 12Gb/s 512E 3.5"

$10.83/TB - WD-40 Ultrastar HE12 12TB SAS 512E

$12.65/TB - Seagate Expansion Desktop 26TB, Externe Harde Schijf, 3.5"

$13.63/TB - Seagate Expansion 22TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0

If it weren't for AI creating a shortage of drives, these prices would've been even cheaper

It's nowhere near that cheap.

Here you go mate. They dont have 10TB in stock, but the do have 20TB refurbs at around $15/TB.