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Refurbished hard drive retailers (piefed.social)
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I've had a hard drive throw a fault on my truenas zfs pool, so probably need to buy a replacement. I know about serverpartdeals, but seem to recall another fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller when I bought these 4 years ago. I just don't remember the name. What retailers are you using for hard drives these days if you have a failure?

In the US btw.

I'll also try just reseating cables in a bit once the scrub finishes. (just in case that's all it is)

ETA: the other retailer is goharddrive.com. I'm still interested to hear other suggestions if anyone has them.

Edit2: luckily reseating power and sata cables appear to have fixed it for now. the drive is resilvering, so hopefully I'm good. Thanks everyone for the recommendations, as I know one will fail at some point.

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[–] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

It wasn't that long ago that it was generally accepted that you shouldn't buy secondhand/refurbished drives. The world seems to have turned upside down.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.

    So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.

    Most drives I've owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won't run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it's more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    Sure, in a ultra-consumerist world, everybody buy all things new. Now that hard drives cost a kidney, you buy refurbished ones, and you realize that it's not that bad, especially if you use the right mitigations.

    And that's a trend that may grow and spread to other things, considering that mondialisation will get increasingly difficult due to geopolitics troubles, and petrol becoming costlier over the next years/decades.

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