how often do your 3rdparty "refurb" drives last?

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rounding_error@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Bought from goHardDrive. I’ve already had a drive fail and require replacement, and that was with pretty much no use. It just failed on a smart test. The same drive, maybe, has already failed again. I’m going to nag em because of the warranty, but it’s pretty worrying. Like, I’m sure failing a scrub isn’t the end of the world, but it’s also not a good thing, right?

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yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
All 6 of my 12TB hdds are refurbs. Had one start to fail, bought another refurb, swapped it out, and that one was showing failures. After some debugging I figured out it was the cable that died.

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frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Two of mine are coming up on 11 years of hours. I’ve had them maybe 3 years.

Also, they’re 6tb drives, so I bet they were pretty expensive when new.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If you do buy refurbished drives, ideally get manufacturer refurbished ones that come with a manufacturer warranty. If you’re in the USA, ServerPartDeals is a great store for it.

The thing that sucks at the moment is that refurbished drives cost more than the new ones used to cost.

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Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
3 refurbished drives here (12, 18, 26TB), between 1 and 3 years old, no redundancy, no specific healthcheck but also no reported problem so far, even though I misshandled some of them in the beginning.

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CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have a rather large array of refurbished 14TB WD HC530 drives and most are still going strong. Ive lost a couple over the last 3-4 years, but the fast majority are still going strong.

Since these are goHardDrive, I’m guessing they’re most likely Seagate or the white label Seagates (I think they’re called MD drives)? I have had terrible experience with Seagate, even when new. I pretty much exclusively buy WD or Toshiba because of that.

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- rounding_error@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I mostly avoided seagate, but may have bought one for storage diversity. I’ll have to check if it’s Seagate in the morning.
  
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Going on 2 years now with all 12 I have currently in my PowerEdge. I run parity and health checks monthly, and still seem to be going strong.

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