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

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[–] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

12 TB for $80 is a deal for me! My 8tb was around $200 to $300 in 2021

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's "refurbed" by the seller. It also says it has approximately 35,000 hours on it. That's 4 years of continual use. I wouldn't trust that with anything.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That drive could run another 5 years without any problems.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It certainly could. That's the gamble you're taking.

I usually replace drives after 5 years if they are doing anything I consider important. So those drives to me would have 1-2 years left in them. Of course, I have seen a good number of drives I have repurposed to things less important still manage to rack up impressive numbers of hours.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm running Raid z2;and have considered even z3 which should be plenty of redundancy for older drives. Well that and backing up data to a separate location.

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on the usage. That's the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?

That's 240$ for three drives without warranty though... Nevermind I'd prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.

Sometimes you get what you pay for ... Sometimes

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

The Toshiba x300 is a consumer drive, the drive they are offering is an enterprise grade storage drive. I have only bought enterprise or nas speed drives in the past. Consumer drives may not be built to the same standards.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

It could. I'm not trusting it with anything important though.