It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nautricity on 2024-05-20 13:12:39.

Recently got ahold of A LOT of FREE server equipment, with drives, resulting in me now having nearly a petabyte of total storage combined. I’m very new to RAIDs and server setups in general.

My question for now is, what’s the best way to refresh these drives to achieve optimal performance before deploying them? Most of these drives have multiple 10s of thousands of hours on them.

I have a mix of Apple Xserve RAID, Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, Cisco UCS, etc branded servers and RAID arrays, ranging from 250 GB HDDs all the way up to 8 TB HDDs.

Is there any sort of specific software that’s recommended to “refurbish” these drives in mass? Bonus points for macOS (64 bit) and OS X (32 bit) compatibility!

Thank you all for any help as I’m very new to this!