Since the enshittification of streaming providers is continuing I'm thinking of going back to my own collection saved on a central server for the family's convenience.
I just need more storage. But the only 8-12 TB drives in the 100-150 € price range are refurbished ones. I could only afford one at the moment so some resilience with RAID is out of the picture.
Can I trust these drives? Or will they fail in a few years? I kind of don't want to have to rip all my stuff twice.
Edit: Thanks for the input. I bit the bullet and was able to find a 12 TB HDD at 142 €.
Had great luck so far with some seagate 12tb ones. I bought them pre-tariff bullshit for like $99/drive and they have been happily spinning away since. I think I got them from serverparts.