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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I second that, Seagate AND refurbished is a no go.

Seagate or refurbished is already enough to hardly consider

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's interesting reading this. Here we switched from WD over to Seagate for couple of years since they totally redeemed themselves. Planing to switch from 4* 8TB WD Reds to 8* 20TB Seagates next month and can't wait to build the system