Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

• InternetUser2012@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s “refurbed” by the seller. It also says it has approximately 35,000 hours on it. That’s 4 years of continual use. I wouldn’t trust that with anything.

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  • Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That drive could run another 5 years without any problems.

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    • InternetUser2012@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It could. I’m not trusting it with anything important though.

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    • toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It certainly could. That’s the gamble you’re taking.

      I usually replace drives after 5 years if they are doing anything I consider important. So those drives to me would have 1-2 years left in them. Of course, I have seen a good number of drives I have repurposed to things less important things still manage to rack up impressive numbers of hours.

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      • Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m running Raid z2;and have considered even z3 which should be plenty of redundancy for older drives. Well that and backing up data to a separate location.

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    • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on the usage. That’s the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?

      That’s 240$ for three drives without warranty though… Nevermind I’d prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.

      Sometimes you get what you pay for … Sometimes

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      • Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The Toshiba x300 is a consumer drive, the drive they are offering is an enterprise grade storage drive. I have only bought enterprise or nas speed drives in the past. Consumer drives may not be built to the same standards.

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