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I want to do all kinds of cursed shit hardware wise beneath ZFS to see just how much fuckery it can handle. Slow drives, known bad drives, evil HBAs, cheap flash media, you name it.

The goal is I want to prove to anyone that cares that they should be comfortable using cheap, shitty disks, plus redundancy, instead of whatever expensive shit Seagate is sending out to youtubers.

Any good ideas for extra cursed, unreliable, data hating hardware?


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in reply to @plumpan's post:

Ive always wondered if Walmart's "Onn" brand microsd cards are appreciably worse than Sandisks for various tasks & reliability. (I run several for low-intensity tasks)

aside from that, I have an old WD MyPassport 250 GB from an estate sale I can donate to a worthy cause. (it just has DVR'd episodes of The Office on it). I kinda wish Id known about this before that estate sale bc it was full of ancient external hard disks haphazardly stored in storage totes.

More seriously, I'd suggest going on Aliexpress, searching "SSD", and going for the cheapest you trust to not be 4 factory-second MicroSDs in a trenchcoat. Also I'd say test some of the ex-enterprise drives from surplus sellers; Reddit tends to hem and haw over the reliability/safety of those a lot. Maybe see if you can track down some of the last Hitachi helium-filled drives for kicks; I remember people really liking those, but they've been out of production for a few years because Hitachi sold out to somebody. probably seagate.

I'm literally already running my main data array on ex enterprise drives with 10 years of power on hours, pretty much all of that with the disks spinning. That doesn't phase me at all, those are fine reliability wise.

I've got an external that's rotted some data already, ideally I'd like to test things with multiple drives so I can test resilvers and the likes. I've also got a pile of NOS 250GB "enterprise" SATA drives that I may subject to a bit of mean treatment... I'm having way too much fun thinking up ideas already lol.

With Ali I think I'd end up with microSDs in a trenchcoat. Which might not be the worst thing but I would not want to pay much for this. I'm trying to get this project through without spending much money at all... but reburb drives are calling.

redundant array of independent (nintendo) ds

block device mounted over some ftp server homebrew and curlftpfs or something? not sure if it'll work at all, but i think... i think it's supposed to... theoretically...?

I do have a few DSes but I'd rather just throw SD cards at it since my DSes are all running those one way or another already

It'd be fun to store data in pictochat.... did someone do that????? Hang on WHAT WAS THAT VIDEO I'M REMEMBERING A CURSED VIDEO NOW