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FOR SALE: 4TB drives

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I have some used 4TB drives for sale that I pulled out of my existing 3U server when I upgraded to 6TB drives. They will be sent to Kaleidescape to be reinitialized, so you can have them either as blank add-on drives or have them come with an operating system.

Drives are under the original warranty until 7-27-2016.

Kept in a rack mounted chassis in an air conditioned electronics room during their entire operational time.

Pricing is $500 each, shipped anywhere in North America. Overseas shipping available for actual shipping cost additional.
 
Sale pending on 8 of the drives.

5 of them still available, as well as the 3U server from my other thread (that 3U server has 6 x 4TB drives).
 
Update:

I still have 5 of these drives available.

$500 per drive shipped.
 
I am interested in one (1) of the 4tb disks to pair with a 4tb/2tb pairing I currently have. How do I know it will be compatible with my 4tb disk? Let me know. Thanks.
 
These drives are compatible with all 3U and 1U servers. All you do is put the drive into any unoccupied drive slot and within about 5 seconds it is recognized by the server and additional capacity becomes available.

If you have a 4TB and 2TB drive pair right now, you are only getting 2TB of storage as the first 4TB drive is used for RAID parity. This would increase your storage by the full 4TB.
 
OK. How would I go about purchasing the drive from you. Also, if you don't mind I have a couple of questions. How do I install it? Do I just pull out the 2tb and plug in the 4tb? How is the data transferred? Let me know, and thanks.

John Ladyzinski
 
If you would like to purchase a drive, I am selling them for $500 each, including shipping. You can paypal me at mike@poindexternut.com and I can have them shipped out as early as tomorrow.

To add the drives to your system, you would just pull out the drives that are not populated in your server. They will have a “dummy” cartridge in the slot that you can remove. The dummy drives do not have lights on them. Then slide the new drive into the slot until it clicks. It will get power, spin up and a few seconds later be part of the array. No data has to transfer onto it as it will enlarge your array.

Which server do you have? The 1U or the 3U server? Based on your info you gave, it sounds like you have a 1U server. Is that correct?
 
A few more drives sold. Still have 3 of the 4TB drives left. Also have a 3U server if anybody is looking for one of those (3U server has 6 x 4TB drives for 16TB of storage after RAID/Hot Spare).
 
I thought you lost only 1 Drive in storage terms due to RAID on the 3U. Didn't know you loose 2 of them.

Is that the same in the 1U?
 
On a 3U you have 1 disk allocated for raid and 1 disk is used as the hot spare hence the space allocation above re the 6 4tb disks providing 16tb of storage. On the 1U there is no hot spare.
 
Do you still have any drives left and is the 3u server still available and is so what are you asking for it?
Thanks
 
I have 3 drives left and the 3U is currently unsold.

Asking $500 per 4TB drive and asking $9,000 for the 3U server, which has 6 x 4TB drives in it already. I include free shipping in the Continental USA.
 
My 3U server has been sold but I still have 3 of the 4TB drives left and that is it.

$500 per drive, free CONUS shipping.
 
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