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Not necessarily, since disk failures are typically U-shaped. Buying used drives eliminates the high rate of early failure (but does get you a bit closer to the
by antisthenes 1y ago
Not necessarily, since disk failures are typically U-shaped.
Buying used drives eliminates the high rate of early failure (but does get you a bit closer to the 2nd part of the U-curve).
Typically most drives would become more obsolete before hitting the high failure rate of the right side of the U-curve from longevity (7+ years)
- toast0 1y agoI bet you still have a higher early failure rate because of the stress from transportation, even if there's no funny business. And I expect some funny business because used enterprise drives often come with wiped SMART data, some drives may have been retired by sophisticated clients who decided they were near failure.
- dist-epoch 1y agoPhysically moving the drive tends to reset the U-shape. Some will be damaged.