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You should not be downvoted. I think people are misunderstanding your comment. But I am confused about another part. Why would you prefer (clearly marked) "re
by quesera 2y ago
You should not be downvoted. I think people are misunderstanding your comment.
But I am confused about another part.
Why would you prefer (clearly marked) "refurbished" HDDs for 20% less than new, if you expect them to last 5 years? If a new HDD would last 6+ years, you're better off buying new, right?
I guess I can see electing to buy into the lower part of the bathtub curve, but I have a difficult time trusting that "refurb" doesn't reset your timeline on the curve (e.g. by replacing the PCB outside the platter box).
- sekh60 2y agoFor my last two Exos drives (22TB each) I decided to try refurbs. I have them in my homelab's ceph cluster. I figured I'd try them due to cost. They were two thirds the cost of a new drive, so I figure I can do a 3 for the price of 2 sort of thing and have more redundancy that way. That said, ceph with replica count 3 (min_size 2), so my data is pretty protected. Important stuff is backed up anyway. So far the older one has been running for about 4 months and the newer about 2 months, no SMART errors yet.
- Dylan16807 2y agoI don't think "at least 5 years" is supposed to suggest a high failure rate after 5 years. It's more a description of use case. I wouldn't expect a particularly high failure rate until the drives are ready to be retired and replaced with much bigger drives. Also as a reference point, the refurbished drives I've bought have been less than $10/TB, while new internal drives are $15/TB on a good day.
- kmoser 2y ago> I guess I can see electing to buy into the lower part of the bathtub curve This assumes you know and can control where in the curve you're buying into.
- JAlexoid 2y agoThey're not 20% less, they're a third of the price of a new one.