Any reason these renewed drives from Amazon would be a bad choice? Planning on getting 4 of them to build a NAS and maybe hosting jellyfin.
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No, no, no, no. Nope. Heck no. Amazon packaging is terrible for electronics.
I want my drives to last 5 - 8 years at least before I even think about checking SMART stats.
Storage is 101% "you get what you pay for" status in my mind.
But you can use that in your favor though. If you run large raid arrays with decent amounts of redundancy, and the right software stack the loss of any one or even two drives really doesn’t impact the entire system.
This isn't true, but I guess it's a good thing so I can always get white labelled drives if everyone thinks that.
Search my profile, I made a post about white labelled drives.
Yea never complain about the people that won't buy cheap. It just makes it cheaper with less demand :)
You should anticipate that your storage devices will fail. Drives are consumables. The system that controls the drives should be built for long-term reliability via redundancy. The actual drives should not be expected to have long-term reliability.