Recertified Seagate Exos drives

[gwwak]

Is it OK to buy manufacturer recertfied hard drives? They are quite a bit cheaper than new drives.

[Crashed]

If you don't put anything on them you don't mind losing, at least for the first 6 months to a year to validate that the drives are stable. Bought a white label 14TB MaxDigitalData which I believe is a rebadged Seagate and it's still running strong over a year later.

Playing Fallout 4 off this drive because there isn't much advantage to running it on SSD. Also have numerous VMs on the drive.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez gwwak:

Is it OK to buy manufacturer recertfied hard drives? They are quite a bit cheaper than new drives.

Yes its perfectly fine, a refurb drive can fail tomorrow or last years just like a new drive. If your data is important you should always have some form of redundancy or backup in place.

[mtono]

i think that a problem can be:
the harddrives may work perfectly, but they sometimes have tenthousands of running hours. i have read about this on the internet somewhere and since then i do not want a used, maybe perfectly running, hard disk dirve in any case. one can be lucky. i wont buy such hardware.
my2ct.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez mtono:

i think that a problem can be:
the harddrives may work perfectly, but they sometimes have tenthousands of running hours. i have read about this on the internet somewhere and since then i do not want a used, maybe perfectly running, hard disk dirve in any case. one can be lucky. i wont buy such hardware.
my2ct.

10K hours on an Exos drive is basically nothing, they are designed to run 24/7 (almost 9k hours per year) in conditions that would far exceed anything a typical home user would ever come close to. Mean time between failures is 2.5 million hours so again a few thousand hours is nothing to worry about. With that being said there are no guarantees a drive can last a day or it can last decades. Buy refurbs from reputable sources and back up your important data.

[mtono]

i see.

thx.