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SOLD: 1TB spare drives for 1U or 3U - READ

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AlienW

Well-known member
For sale:
1TB spare drives for 1U or 3U server. These will work to replace a failed 750GB or 1TB drive or will add space to a server with empty drive slots. I have 6 available for $125 each, plus S/H.

Details:
These were from a 3U server that I purchased recently. The server came with 11x 1TB drives. These drives never had content written to them and thus can still be used as spares. This was confirmed my MikeKobb in this thread: https://www.kscapeowners.com/XF/threads/hot-spare-clarification.3777/

I determined that these did not have content by removing the hot spare from the server and then powering it on. The filesystem size reduced itself by 1TB and another drive started blinking blue indicating that it was now the hot spare. I repeated this process by removing the disk that was the hot spare until the server indicated that the hot spare was missing. This happened with 4 disks left in the server. So out of the 11 disks in the server, only 4 were written to.

I tested this theory that the removed disks would still work as spares by adding one to another 1U server that I have with a failed drive. The drive taken from the 3U was accepted into the array of the 1U and the rebuild process completed successfully. So now I have 6 remaining drives that I am selling. I don't know much more about the condition of these since I just got them myself, so the price that I am selling them for reflects this. They will probably be fine for a while but I am making no guarantees.
 

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