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Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.

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[–] BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

These are used drives that have about 35K hours (4 years) of power on time.
Good quality drives to be sure, but maybe not as reliable now as they once were.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

That's why you buy extras and put them in RAID or zfs!

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

It just means they've survived the first part of the bathtub curve. To me that's a bonus.