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The datahoarder community frequently utilizes used hard drives. That's perfectly fine, if your NAS has redundancy and you can recover from 1 - 2 disk failures,
by gorbachev 10mo ago
The datahoarder community frequently utilizes used hard drives.
That's perfectly fine, if your NAS has redundancy and you can recover from 1 - 2 disk failures, and you're buying the drives from a reputable reseller.
- t-3 10mo agoI usually buy used hard drives, but prices are strange for all electronics right now. It's a bad time to buy anything computer-related, but especially used goods which aren't discounted as much as normal are priced higher due to massive inflation (to the point that refurbished drives I bought 5 years ago have a better dollar/GB ratio than refurbs I can buy today).