Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com
arin@lemmy.world 7 months ago12 TB for $80 is a deal for me! My 8tb was around $200 to $300 in 2021
Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com
arin@lemmy.world 7 months ago12 TB for $80 is a deal for me! My 8tb was around $200 to $300 in 2021
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 7 months ago
It’s “refurbed” by the seller. It also says it has approximately 35,000 hours on it. That’s 4 years of continual use. I wouldn’t trust that with anything.
Trollception@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That drive could run another 5 years without any problems.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 7 months ago
It could. I’m not trusting it with anything important though.
toddestan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It certainly could. That’s the gamble you’re taking.
I usually replace drives after 5 years if they are doing anything I consider important. So those drives to me would have 1-2 years left in them. Of course, I have seen a good number of drives I have repurposed to things less important things still manage to rack up impressive numbers of hours.
Trollception@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m running Raid z2;and have considered even z3 which should be plenty of redundancy for older drives. Well that and backing up data to a separate location.
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Depends on the usage. That’s the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?
That’s 240$ 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
Trollception@lemmy.world 7 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.