No concerns here.
I buy used server chassis and power supplies for my NASes.
The only new items in my primary, backup, and offsite NASes are the 500TB of HDD’s and a couple of fan splitters.
The only new items in my 3 Proxmox nodes are…nothing actually. All SSD’s, HDD’s and everything else is used enterprise hardware.
The only thing I buy new are the HDD’s for the bulk storage.
I’ll buy used enterprise SSD’s for flash storage.
Not necessarily. I’ve had enterprise SSD’s die that were under 1yr old with less than 100TB written.
I also have HDD’s used in my surveillance system that have several petabytes written to them over the last 6yrs still going strong.
I just moved the HDD I got in my first NAS (8TB WD Red) to its 4th home and it just turned 7 y/o.
All drives die eventually whether they are HDD’s or SSD’s.
8 years is a good run for any type of drive.
Backups are key for keeping your data safe over the decades.
I don’t care what others do, however, I just have no interest storing documents with my SSN on their software.
Could I go through the 50K+ lines of code (even though I’m not proficient with Go) looking for something nefarious…sure. Will I given that trusted software such as Nextcloud exists and is also free…nope.
I may just have my tinfoil hat on too tight, however, there’s not a chance that I’ll trust a Chinese application with any of my personal information.
I guess you could do that…or you could switch to a company that hasn’t gone to $hit like Jellyfin or Emby.
Sellers can send offers to potential buyers. It happens to me all of the time.