Hello, i found a offering on Ebay for refurbished seagate enterprise capacity harddrives with a good price (12tb/120€).
Has anyone experience using these drives in a nas and would recommend them ? Or should I stay away?
I’m running a 4 bay nas with raid5.
Thanks.
I bought a Seagate Enterprise Capacity v7 ST12000NM0127 from Amazon (Amazon Renewed with 1 year warranty). I only use it as my parity drive so I don’t expect it to hold any data. If it survives a year I might try a second one.
It’s not that I don’t trust in renewed/refurbed/recert hardware, I don’t trust Seagate.
New > Used > Recertified > Refurbished
WD > Toshiba > Seagate
Based on that, no I would not.
I second that, Seagate AND refurbished is a no go.
Seagate or refurbished is already enough to hardly consider
It’s interesting reading this. Here we switched from WD over to Seagate for couple of years since they totally redeemed themselves. Planing to switch from 4* 8TB WD Reds to 8* 20TB Seagates next month and can’t wait to build the system
Not with Seagates, but I’ve recently bought two refurbished 12TB drives to use in a Raid1.
I figured since they’re in a RAID and there’s gonna be a backup, I can take the risk.