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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they're close to failing.

Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won't see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.

Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    For me hard drives could potentially be bought second hand. However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it. Not because of the quality but because what was in it. Every time I get a refurb drive I have the bad habit to check what was the previous data if readable. One day I am sure I will get a nasty surprise...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.

    It's honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days...

    Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.

    So to clarify, what's good is:

    A product that was sent back to manufacturer and "manufacturer refurbished" meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it's still working

    Pretty much anything else, would be bad.

    An example of what is bad is:

    "Amazon/ebay refurbished" where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.

    Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that's where we can find deals.

    I think I've got a 1TB that's ~20 years old I got that way. It's still technically in my main PC, but at this point it's an unimportant archive drive that just doesn't get read or wrote very often.

    I've just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don't know why people act like they're disposable parts of a PC still.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My definition of refurb is anyone that actually has a store and only deals with this stuff. Examples are western digital themselves or Seagate, or shops like true base

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    Yeah I'd imagine you'd have trouble finding a good deal there. I've had way more luck getting drives from eBay, thrift shops, yard sales and the local dump.

    Also by convincing everyone I know to just give me their old stuff that they think is no longer useful. They don't want it taking up space anyway, and I get to harvest the useful bits and add them to my frankensteined home lab, then responsibly dispose of the rest. There have also been several machines I've acquired this way that I've repaired/made whole again, then provided to those who need them.

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