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Recertified hard drives - do you buy those refurbished drives?

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phinix:
I saw some good priced hard drives on Western Digital website.
Would you buy a recertified hd from manufacturers site?

It comes with 1 year warranty, instead of 3 years for brand new.
Price £100 vs £170 new.

fohat.digs:
Maybe ....

Many times object are returned immediately after being purchased and cannot legally be sold as "new" even though they are, more or less. That could be a good deal.

Otherwise, if "re-certified" means "used but still works" I would be careful, particularly if you are planning to use it for long-term archival service.

tp4tissue:
Tp4 uses them because he doesn't spin up very often for large isos.

If you want something that you keep spun up, or even in a nas with a zfs,  you'll need enterprise rated drives, and you can't use used-drives, because they're at the end of their reliability lifespan.

But it depends on how much you care about data integrity, for general use, it doesn't really matter unless you take Archivist-to-heart as a hobby.

phinix:
Plan is to plug it in to my living room mini-PC and keep all my movies and tv shows collection on it, so practically be on 24/7 ( I would set it to go to sleep during idle).
I would also have second one for backup, kept in drawer, not plugged.

fohat.digs:

--- Quote from: phinix on Sun, 08 June 2025, 14:38:09 ---
my living room mini-PC and keep all my movies and tv shows collection on it

have second one for backup, kept in drawer


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That is easy. Buy a new high-quality drive for backup and use it as little as possible. Consider the one that gets all the wear and tear to be expendable.

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