Any reason these renewed drives from Amazon would be a bad choice? Planning on getting 4 of them to build a NAS and maybe hosting jellyfin.
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No, no, no, no. Nope. Heck no. Amazon packaging is terrible for electronics.
I want my drives to last 5 - 8 years at least before I even think about checking SMART stats.
Storage is 101% “you get what you pay for” status in my mind.
But you can use that in your favor though. If you run large raid arrays with decent amounts of redundancy, and the right software stack the loss of any one or even two drives really doesn’t impact the entire system.
This isn’t true, but I guess it’s a good thing so I can always get white labelled drives if everyone thinks that.
Search my profile, I made a post about white labelled drives.
Yea never complain about the people that won’t buy cheap. It just makes it cheaper with less demand :)
You should anticipate that your storage devices will fail. Drives are consumables. The system that controls the drives should be built for long-term reliability via redundancy. The actual drives should not be expected to have long-term reliability.
I just bought (4) 8tb drives renewed from Amazon for $65 a piece. They are fine so far in my nas but each has 50k hours lol.
I inherited 6x WD Red 3TB drives from work recently and they all have over 60k hours lol, none of them have any smart errors!
Aren’t surveillance-rated drives a terrible investment for any long-term storage system (long-term being more than 3yrs)
This is a good point. Surveillance drives are built with the expectation that they will be writing in video data from a security camera system 24/7, so they’re optimized for a constant data write and less so for read, and really not intended for general-purpose random read/write actions. It’ll still work, but not as well as a NAS drive would.
You’d think so, but I’ve got a 2nd hand purple 4tb surveillance something and it’s been fine for years. I’ve also a bunch of 2nd hand Enterprise(?) 500Gbs that are older than Noah.
That said I keep anything important on a new 4Tb Red
Meanwhile, in Europe we’re shucking 10TB disks for 300 Euro -+ :|
so it might not be amazon selling these, secondly if I would sell you a car for $99 what do you think? sure this Tesla for 99 seems legit, lets do it?
serverpartdeals
And like that, I went broke…
That’s who I use. I’ve only had one go bad and they swaped it with no issues and paid for shipping.
link pleas?
do you guys recommend these renewed HDD?
Dang only have 2.5 inch space
Drives, condomns and underwear ate a few of the product categories you don’t buy used. Or you have to accept that what the previous owner did with them is going to haunt you.
Disctech.com is trustworthy for recertified drives. Have a bunch now going on a year with no problems.
I bought one of those from amz and it had a bad sector on it, had to return it for a brand new one
I’ve ordered a few refurb drives from Amazon. It’s hit or miss. I thoroughly test the drives. And definitely have a had to return a couple. But it’s Amazon. It’s super easy for returns.
I don’t see any comments mentioning this, but you want to stay away from surveillance drives for any other use. They’re really only designed for NVR purposes. For multi-purpose or NAS use you want NAS drives.
Someone is about to get a bag of rocks on their porch
Same latency
/i’ll let myself out
I have a Synology loaded with the enterprise-grade 14TB version of those and so far, have had no failures. I have started swapping out 14TB drives for my offsite backup as well. I just have one of those as I only do those quarterly, but again, no issues.