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> I've taken to buying used Western Digital Ultrastar drives on Amazon for my NAS. Same. I bought a bunch of 10TB HGST drives for my home NAS. They were $79 ($
by WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> I've taken to buying used Western Digital Ultrastar drives on Amazon for my NAS.
Same. I bought a bunch of 10TB HGST drives for my home NAS. They were $79 ($95 now) vs $325 new. I ran badblocks for 24H on each and found one dodgy one, which the seller swapped out.
Last year I was buying new old stock 6TB Ultrastar SAS drives from B&H for $90 ea. They were a few years old with 0 hours. None of the drives showed any indication of use, ex: no witness marks. They're in a hotswap NAS.
- marcus0x62 2y agoFor personal use, its really hard to see how this would go wrong. You get an (arguably) much better drive in the Ultrastar, and even if the resellers (typically 2 year) warranty doesn't pan out, the drives are cheap enough compared to new you can replace one or two in a typical RAID-6 array out of pocket and still come out ahead.