I don't know if it is a "Black Friday" deal but there are two 18TiB manufacturer refurbished options from goharddrive:
I bought the ST18000NM003D last weekend, it arrived Wednesday and it has been great so far. Let's see how many months or years it will last~
I recommend using something like func.readdir=cosr:8 but you could use the number of CPUs or the number of drives that you have instead of 8.
func.readdir=cosr:8
https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/releases
I don't know if it is a "Black Friday" deal but there are two 18TiB manufacturer refurbished options from goharddrive:
I bought the ST18000NM003D last weekend, it arrived Wednesday and it has been great so far. Let's see how many months or years it will last~