I found a listing of used toshiba MG04ACA600E drives at 6TB for around 100usd each. 49K on hours, and no issues on smart other than g-sense at 171. 15 on start-stop count. They got a full rewrite from 3rd party with 0 errors on the sectors. Good deal?
I recently got into homelabbing and need some inputs from the community. I have up until now ran everything through my isp modem/router combo which is shit if you actually want to configure something.
For context I'm setting up a pfsense and I need something to take over the switching and AP. Right now I just need a "simple" switch, preferably cli but webui to configure is fine I guess. AP is whatever wifi6.
I'm pretty familiar with Cisco enterprise hardware, but I would be sleeping on the couch if I shell out 5k for that :-)
So my question is, what do the typical homelabber use for own internal network? Ubiquiti is decent hardware for a good price, but shit support I have heard. MikroTik slow security patching, HPE also expensive, mostly dumb switches in my country unless I import etc etc. (PS just from what I have read regarding the different "ecosystems")
Open to most stuff as I don't mind manual configuration and learning different OS