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best black Friday deals on hard drives? I only see modest sales on new drivers, should I go with recertified? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by happystore1@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I want to by around 6 drives to add to my nas. I was waiting for black Friday sales but they only have modest discounts, recertified drives on ebay seems more enticing

what do you think?

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[–] Clawkikker@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're willing to shuck seagate externals, there is a one from costco. Supposedly seagate is currently using their exos line in their more recently manufactured products. The only downside would be the 1 year warranty.

https://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html

[–] zerostyle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is exos considered reliable? Backblaze reports in the past have always had seagate in dead last.

[–] Clawkikker@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exos aren't inherently bad, I believe it is always going to be down to the specific model number as in their latest drive stat blog for q3, one model of 14tb exo had a ~6% failure rate, while the other had ~1.3% failure rate.

[–] zerostyle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Ya i'm not touching seagate then.

I've run WD drives for like 25 years with 0 failures.