No, no, no, no. Nope. Heck no. Amazon packaging is terrible for electronics.
I want my drives to last 5 - 8 years at least before I even think about checking SMART stats.
Storage is 101% “you get what you pay for” status in my mind.
No, no, no, no. Nope. Heck no. Amazon packaging is terrible for electronics.
I want my drives to last 5 - 8 years at least before I even think about checking SMART stats.
Storage is 101% “you get what you pay for” status in my mind.
You could use iSCSI for block storage and not SAN. Each machine would have its own LUN.
However, time/heart ache/frustration and learning curves are all worth something. Newegg has a reasonable SSD for $16 total including free shipping. I’d find a way to save up $64 bucks myself, even if it took a month or two and boot one new machine every other week.