Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay?

On 21/03/2025 23:40, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

SH <i.love@spam.com> wrote:

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I have a fairly old Buffalo Terastation (rack mount) with 4 off 1 TB
drives in it.  its SMB 1.0 only and only does about 30 Mbyte/s at full pelt.
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I want to sell this......   which is going to be more profitable?
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1. Sell thw whole NAS as is, its quite heavy so the postage will cost a bit
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2. Strip it, sell just the 4 off 1 TB drives and junk the now denuded NAS?

 When I got one cheap with 4TB drives I pulled them out, wiped them,
ran the self-tests on them, and sold them on. They sold fairly
fast, but I was only asking the bottom price for tested drives
among other similar ones on Ebay.
 The NAS, or just the main circuit board from it, looked like it
could be handy for roles like an x86_64 single-board-computer. So
I listed it for more than it was worth to me as an SBC thinking it
might not sell based on other listings, but it did. It was probably
better than your one though.
 

I'm sure someone told me that big PATA drives are somewhat desirable now you cannot buy them. Mainly for people who want something for their existing NAS. Not necessarily to run for years but should 1 drive fail, they can throw in a spare and rebuild to buy more time whilst they pull their finger out and get a new NAS in whatever shape that may be.
My old NAS was 2011 vintage and ran for 12 years continuously, never off, A Buffalo with 2x Maxtor 2TB 3.5in PATA drives. What made me switch off was the noise of 2 drives running when everything else had been upgraded to SSD, the electricity usage and the fact the 600MHz ARM CPU could only manage 24MB/s over the 1Gbps network.