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

mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 22/03/2025 21:34, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

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My old NAS was 2011 vintage and ran for 12 years continuously, never
off, A Buffalo with 2x Maxtor 2TB 3.5in PATA drives.

 
I never knew they made them that big, the 4TB drives I removed were
SATA.
 

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.

 
I don't really have a need for a home NAS. Big files (videos and
backups) go onto USB drives which I connect as required. A few GBs
on an SD card in a single-board-computer suffices for everything
else with cheaper hardware and less power wasted.
 

Actually they are 4TB drives. It was a 2TB NAS when the disks were mirrored.

Are you sure those are PATA (IDE) - 40 or 44 pin ribbon cable connector?
From what I can find the largest PATA manufactured was 750GB.

It's always possible to put a PATA->SATA converter in front of a SATA drive,
but that doesn't make it natively PATA.  There were some drives which came
from the manufacturer with such a converter.

Theo