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Hello, i found a offering on Ebay for refurbished seagate enterprise capacity harddrives with a good price (12tb/120€).
Has anyone experience using these drives in a nas and would recommend them ? Or should I stay away?
I’m running a 4 bay nas with raid5.
Thanks.
I bought a Seagate Enterprise Capacity v7 ST12000NM0127 from Amazon (Amazon Renewed with 1 year warranty). I only use it as my parity drive so I don't expect it to hold any data. If it survives a year I might try a second one.
It's not that I don't trust in renewed/refurbed/recert hardware, I don't trust Seagate.