Hi, I seek your help once again. I’m in the need of upgrading my storage now and I found what I consider to be a good deal via Amazon on an older gen enterprise WD drive that supposedly hasn’t been used, but I’ll let the power on hours tell me the truth. The price is about 16usd/TB and I’m wondering if this is a bad idea due to the age of the drive? I’m guessing the drive would be about 10 years old maybe. The plan would be to buy 2: 1 for my cold media backups and the other would be a backup for the cold media backup.
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You can get new WD drives for ~18usd/Tb. https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-sata-hdd?sku=WD60EFAX
I wouldn’t mess with older drives unless they were less than half the price. In that case set them up raid 1 and send it.
This is SMR.
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Mechanics doesn’t like just sitting around. 10 years is not nothing, I’d definitely take that into account.
Might be stupid to ask but how would you go about weeding out the bad sellers from the good ones when it comes to hard drives? Especially on secondhand markets like eBay and amazon
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Folks on the data hoarder sub likes these. Dell Exos X18 18TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 3.5-inch Enterprise HDD - ST18000NM002J (Renewed) https://a.co/d/6xlSU1X
Also shucks.top
For second hand, I highly recommend https://serverpartdeals.com/
Nice!
Anyone knows how much shipping is to Europe (it’s an option but you have to make an account etc, so if someone knows … I’d be happy)?
Oh nice thanks!!
Size of the drives?
These specific ones are 4tbs but if the price is good I’ll consider other capacities
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