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Do you buy refurbished drives? (swg-empire.de)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/datahoarder@lemmy.world

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Since the enshittification of streaming providers is continuing I'm thinking of going back to my own collection saved on a central server for the family's convenience.

I just need more storage. But the only 8-12 TB drives in the 100-150 € price range are refurbished ones. I could only afford one at the moment so some resilience with RAID is out of the picture.

Can I trust these drives? Or will they fail in a few years? I kind of don't want to have to rip all my stuff twice.

Edit: Thanks for the input. I bit the bullet and was able to find a 12 TB HDD at 142 €.

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[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

All of my drives outside of my main PC are used. Never had one fail, ever. Many backups so no worries either