Hello, i found a offering on Ebay for refurbished seagate enterprise capacity harddrives with a good price (12tb/120€).

Has anyone experience using these drives in a nas and would recommend them ? Or should I stay away?

I’m running a 4 bay nas with raid5.

Thanks.

  • zeronic@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve had great luck with factory recertified seagate drives from ServerPartDeals, i wouldn’t touch a seller refurbished drive with a 10 foot pole though, they are very different things.

    “Refurbished” has lost pretty much all meaning these days. It could just mean they wiped off some grime, it could mean they fixed a board fault. You can’t know. I’ve had ebay sellers pass off used things as refurbed just because “it could have been refurbed at some point” which is just lunacy. Stay away from refurb kit in general unless you don’t have a choice in my opinion.