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Questions regarding Old-new Hard drives (self.piracy)

submitted 1 year ago by ponchow8NC to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is SMR.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For second hand, I highly recommend https://serverpartdeals.com/

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

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)?

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

Oh nice thanks!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Size of the drives?

[–] ponchow8NC 1 points 1 year ago

These specific ones are 4tbs but if the price is good I'll consider other capacities