2026-10-05 00:49 UTC
Replies (5)
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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-10-05 03:34
I buy all of mine used from random people via ebay. I’ve had a few DOA, and a few start throwing errors after a few years. No issues getting replacements or refunds from sellers within the warranty period. Never had one outright fail, nor have I lost any data from this. I just checked and it turns out two of my drives are over 95,000 hours, that’s nearly 11 years! And they’re still going strong with no errors!
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@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2026-10-05 03:21
fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller Rant: As a private person, you should avoid refurbished hard drives like the pest! Imagine buying a used car where the mileage counter has been reset to zero and the vehicle identification number has been tampered with, so that you cannot find out it’s history. You see that it looks shiny and you know that it has been checked (well, somewhat), but you don’t know that checklist. You even know that nobody knows that checklist. Seriously, you can only assume the worst about this used hard drive’s real condition (years of usage, highest temperature, number of bad sectors…), and also about this reseller. Refurbished hard drives can only be bought by data centers (or other mass users), where their failure rate is calculated by statistics, but not by 5 or 20 failed drives.
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@Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 01:22
I have nothing to contribute; I’m scared of used drives. Interested to hear who folks have had good luck with though.
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@afk_strats@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 06:45
I have several dozen TB of serverpartdeals darddrives. Us based seller. They are extremely professional and prompt and their packaging was incredible.
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@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2026-10-05 07:28
It wasn’t that long ago that it was generally accepted that you shouldn’t buy secondhand/refurbished drives. The world seems to have turned upside down.