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Other Geeky Stuff / Re: Recertified hard drives - do you buy those refurbished drives?
« Last post by Hak Foo on Tue, 10 June 2025, 23:32:58 »I bought one of the cheap 12TB "enterprise" drives and threw it in a little Atom box as a next-tier of backup storage.
As I understand it, a big source of it is hyperscalers, who have racks full of storage that they cycle out either for increased density or because it's cycling past the warranty period.
So far it's working (uptime 6 months) but only a few hundred gigs on it. It needed a special patch cable because most non-server PSUs identify a specific pin on the standard SATA power plug as "+3.3" and the drives treat it as "shut down and go into power-save mode".
As I understand it, a big source of it is hyperscalers, who have racks full of storage that they cycle out either for increased density or because it's cycling past the warranty period.
So far it's working (uptime 6 months) but only a few hundred gigs on it. It needed a special patch cable because most non-server PSUs identify a specific pin on the standard SATA power plug as "+3.3" and the drives treat it as "shut down and go into power-save mode".