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Do you buy refurbished drives? (swg-empire.de)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/datahoarder@lemmy.world
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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 €.

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[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Used both of these sites without issue.

15 drive NAS that has been running for 6+ years, all refurb, have had 3 fail over the years: 2 eventually after years of service, 1 doa/didn’t pass my precheck (badblocks). The doa drive and one of the long drives were replaced by serverpartdeals and goharddrive with no issue, the other drive was actually rma’d by seagate despite being a refurb (initially supplied by spd and still had factory warranty).

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