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theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoWhat do you mean by production run? How could I check that before having them in my hands? And operating hours only applies for used drives no?
I will do some more research on ebay but it is hard to find offers with SMART values and operating hours. The downside of enterprise harddrives is mostly that they are louder right?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
The downside is they are more expensive, the louder part is for big servers I think, but not HDDs
And yes, I was talking about used ones, sometimes they’ve got the SMART values listed, sometimes I ask
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
And with production run I mean produced at the same charge or the like. As those have a higher chance of failure. If you buy two new from the same shop, odds are that they came in the same shipment etc.