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Honestly, Iโve been taking a chance on eBay. If the price is close to $10/TB and the drive is an enterprise drive that is listed as known to be working, with a good return policy, I take the risk. I just run tests as soon as I have it so far, all have been good (eight purchases).
Same. I use these drives in a mirrored setup or to hold data that's replaceable. If they make it a few months without showing errors they might get entrusted to something more important. I'll shell out for a new drive for my constantly in use drives, luckily I read the warning signs and bought a few 20tb HDDs when ram and SSDs started skyrocketing. I'm kicking myself for not grabbing a few backup m.2 nvme and 2.5" SSDs, because I'm already doing the hardrive shuffle in my mini PCs. I'm fine living life with networked rusty spinners, but I really really don't want to go back to spinny boot/high throughput drives.
What sort of tests do you run?
I attach it to my unRAID server as an unassigned device and run a SMART test.