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I see some fairly interesting prices for refurbished drives on Amazon, 35~40% cheaper than new. Example here: 16TB Seagate Exos X18 Refurbished at 166€ and New at 260€.

I am considering this option for my home NAS, running with BTRFS RAID10, plus important files are backed-up to a cloud storage, but not my media collection.

In your opinion, how risky is it to use refurbished drives ? Do you have to good or bad experience doing so ?

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[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I know I'm in a different situation here but i buy all my server drives off ebay. Just got ~60TB worth of SAS drives for a little over $200 USD. Ive never had an issue. Most of these places are where business sell their drives to be wiped. Then they just put them up on ebay

Edit: bad autocorrect

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've not checked Ebay yet, maybe they also have interesting offers in my region? Will take a look, thanks :)