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.
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.
New > Used > Recertified > Refurbished
WD > Toshiba > Seagate
Based on that, no I would not.
I second that, Seagate AND refurbished is a no go.
Seagate or refurbished is already enough to hardly consider
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
Not with Seagates, but I've recently bought two refurbished 12TB drives to use in a Raid1.
I figured since they're in a RAID and there's gonna be a backup, I can take the risk.
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.
I've had great luck with factory recertified seagate drives from ServerPartDeals, i wouldn't touch a seller refurbished drive with a 10 foot pole though, they are very different things.
"Refurbished" has lost pretty much all meaning these days. It could just mean they wiped off some grime, it could mean they fixed a board fault. You can't know. I've had ebay sellers pass off used things as refurbed just because "it could have been refurbed at some point" which is just lunacy. Stay away from refurb kit in general unless you don't have a choice in my opinion.