I didn’t have still, started in 2017. No one enterprise disk, all from NAS series, except one for desktop. But I never used RAID any kind, so I believe that using disks in RAID wearing them much much faster, than using as single disks. It also perhaps related to COW filesystems, which makes more read-write operations than fs like ext4 or NTFS.
I have lost only one HDD with its external box together (this crappy box burned down my HDD when died), but it did not host any Storj node, only the torrent one and my archives.
At least several cases:
- home media servers;
- Smart Home management servers;
- NASes;
- mining rigs;
- game servers;
- home virtual lab servers;
- home web servers;
- old not used laptops;
- raspberry Pi-like low power devices (they also can be part of Smart Home or small web-server);
- unused but already paid VPSes;
etc.
You may imagine a lot of cases actually. Some SNOs are managed to buy a hardware from earnings from hosting a node(s) on existing online hardware and extend.