I found a local shop which sells refurbished and recertified HDDs for a really good price. Some are refurbished, some are recertified, it’s not both at the same time.

Do you have any experience with them? The shop gives a standard one year warranty with them.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    100% reliable so far, I’ve bought about 10 of them I think over the past 8 years or so. Some are in RAID 1 arrays, and some just on their own for backups and such.

    The main thing is buy from a local shop or online place like serverpartdeals.com and not Amazon or other online marketplaces.

    All my stuff is backed up several ways every night (which should be done no matter what drives are used) so it’s not that big of a deal if they failed suddenly.