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bblkargonaut ,

I’ve been buying used 12tb HGST from Amazon for $80.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I always buy new because time spent fixing a problem or recovering data with a used drive ain’t worth it to me. It may be to you. A manufacturer refurb might be ok, in fact I do buy refurb monitors sometimes, but not data storage.

jws_shadotak ,

This is a great reference:
backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2023/

Serverpartdeals is a good source for cheaper drives.

variants ,

I bought two of those serverpartdeals drives after seeing them recommended on reddit after searching for good refurbished drives and they have been running fine for a few months now with no errors in the smart data

paperd ,

Yes to serverpartdeals!

scottmeme ,

I’ve been buying Water Panther refurbished drives.

Both Arsenal (had them for a while) and SaveGreen (they just released recently) and have any had a good experience with them for how cheap they are with warranty.

Only filed 1 RMA, and the turnaround was fairly quick.

They are also Seagate drives, and the SaveGreens have different firmware

scrubbles ,
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Best buy wd elements. On sale every couple of weeks. Crack open the shell and you have a wd red or white.

foggy ,

I’m using a western digital refurb HDD. 14TB.

running 24/7 pretty much since the pandemic. It’s basically my media server.

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