I was actually just looking at buying some sas spinning drives for a nas. Found a seller on Amazon thats unfortunately gone before i could buy em but it was a pretty good deal. Where do you buy yours from?
I got them for free from the place I work at! I might not be paid a lot, but things like this makes up for it.
SAS drives are often thrown away because they aren't worth a lot (if you don't mind used drives), maybe you can find a lot of good deals there, and since they are cheaper you can always get some spare drives, with a RAID 5 setup it's kinda good
Well, SAS or SATA, it doesn't matter for companies... Except if they keep it for spare, they just don't want to be bothered to delete all the data on them. All drives I got was erased before I got them, some people just don't want to see them go to e-waste, others don't care...
Well, I will surely have a need for them in the future, just need to find it!
And good compensation maybe not but it's better than nother else at all, especially since I've got lot of spinning drives that I'm using on my servers for free. Just replaced 24x 600GB with 24x1.2TB which is not bad for free storage I think