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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Are used hard drives ok? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you don’t have the money for the most amount of terabytes there is but you can find it in your budget if you buy it pre-owned.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

All drives die. Sometimes right away sometimes it takes ages. If you have backups it doesn't matter if the drives are new or used because your data is safe. If you don't it also doesn't matter because they'll all fail at some point and there is no way to know whether any given new drive will fail before or after a given used drive.

For me I can get 2-3 good condition used drives with warranty for the same price as a new drive so it doesn't make sense to buy new.

When you price it out for a large server buying used will give you a full backup + your parity disks for the same price as a single server built with new drives.