Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon.

I don't buy drives on Amazon for my 9 year old's laptop because of the rampant fraud and counterfeiting, I'm shocked that they're trusted for any business use-cases by anyone moderately savvy. I'm even more shocked that the takeaway is to blame the individual seller, rather than the marketplace that makes it possible.

First two lines of the article:

>At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable service.

>However, from time to time, it is expedient to purchase parts from Amazon - something we do with care and suspicion.

That seems like a very reasonable and non-crazy approach to using Amazon.

As I pointed out in another post if you are using ZFS RAID Z2 you can use literal used garbage hard drives safely without risking data loss.

ZFS helped me discover that my motherboard SATA chip can't handle 6 drives; I had to purchase a cheap Chinese PCI Express SATA controller to communicate with my drives reliably and error-free.

Not for special VDEVs, which is the explicit purpose here.

You can mirror a slog... l2arc doesn't need a mirror because the data is already on disk. I believe a split metadata can also be mirrored.