I see some fairly interesting prices for refurbished drives on Amazon, 35~40% cheaper than new. Example here: 16TB Seagate Exos X18 Refurbished at 166€ and New at 260€.

I am considering this option for my home NAS, running with BTRFS RAID10, plus important files are backed-up to a cloud storage, but not my media collection.

In your opinion, how risky is it to use refurbished drives ? Do you have to good or bad experience doing so ?

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    161·
    3 months ago

    Don’t buy them off of Amazon. Find some place a little more reputable. You want some sort of legally valid warranty plus seller protection

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Hell I don’t even buy “New” on Amazon anymore, it’s all way too shady. If I want a 3d printed novelty I’ll go there, but something I need to know won’t catch fire? No way.