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Hello all, 

 

Got a question been looking at doing a upgrade to my NAS and found Seller refurbished hard drives. The prices seem to be very good and was wondering thoughts that every one has good idea or bad idea. 

 

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Thank You, 

 

 

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33 minutes ago, Matt997 said:

Hello all, 

 

Got a question been looking at doing a upgrade to my NAS and found Seller refurbished hard drives. The prices seem to be very good and was wondering thoughts that every one has good idea or bad idea. 

 

companies link:

Server Part Deals | eBay Stores

 

Thank You, 

 

 

Used harddrives are always a gamble. It could be a way to get cheap storage, or could be an expensive way to lose all your data. 
 

Regardless of going new or used, always run a full badblocks run on the drives prior to adding them to an array. If any of them fail, or show any SMART errors after the test, return them. I have even had brand new drives fail….

 

If the drive passes badblocks and shows no SMART issues, especially if it’s part of an array with 2 drive redundancy, your probably ok. 
 

This is a great guide: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/hard-drive-burn-in-testing.92/

 

It isn’t specific to truenas, badblocks and smart commands will work across linux distro’s. Always burn in your drives before deployment. 

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Mechanical devices have lifetimes until they inevitably fail.  I think used drives have their lifespan priced in, and it's cheap but not good value.

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