Refurbished hard drive retailers (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by immobile7801@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org -1 points 3 days ago

For refurbished drives, the SMART values are reset to "new".

[-] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 3 days ago

@Zwuzelmaus @Cyber Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. Even when they are, you've still got smart self test log and error log histories. So Power_On_Hours might be "0", but also might show a short offline test completed at 33,000 hours giving you a hint as to the drive's true age.

Anyways, I buy used/refurbished ones w/ 5yr warranties from goharddrive, and when one failed this year they honored the warranty and sent me a replacement despite current drive prices.. so I'm a happy customer.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

OK so 5 years is kinda game changer.
Around here, I have only ever seen 1 year (or none at all).

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