Refurbished Hard Drives
Dec 7, 2016 10:06:05 #
I was surprised to see refurbished hard drives for sale on several sites. Looking further, I found this article.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Refurbished-Hard-Drive-Buying-Guide-/10000000177629610/g.html
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Refurbished-Hard-Drive-Buying-Guide-/10000000177629610/g.html
Dec 7, 2016 10:31:20 #
Jerry,
Thanks for the information ... I would never have given a refurbished drive a second thought ... but, it seems that with a little research you could get a pretty good deal on a factory refurbed unit ... !
Bob S
Thanks for the information ... I would never have given a refurbished drive a second thought ... but, it seems that with a little research you could get a pretty good deal on a factory refurbed unit ... !
Bob S
Dec 7, 2016 10:40:55 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I was surprised to see refurbished hard drives for sale on several sites. Looking further, I found this article.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Refurbished-Hard-Drive-Buying-Guide-/10000000177629610/g.html
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Refurbished-Hard-Drive-Buying-Guide-/10000000177629610/g.html
I am surprised also. However, I would not touch them to save $20.00 or so. Time, when 5 Mb hard drive cost $2,500.00 are long gone. Hard drive mechanism is very sensitive to alignment and to the clean room environment. It is hard to know who and where was the hard drive refurbished. Was it in somebody's garage? My data are way to valuable to trust to some unknown origin. As a matter of fact, I would recommend to use a solid state drive as a dependable storage media. And at least three backups.
Dec 7, 2016 10:43:17 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I was surprised to see refurbished hard drives for sale on several sites. Looking further, I found this article.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Refurbished-Hard-Drive-Buying-Guide-/10000000177629610/g.html
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Refurbished-Hard-Drive-Buying-Guide-/10000000177629610/g.html
Thanks Jerry.
Dec 7, 2016 10:43:43 #
Dec 7, 2016 10:50:37 #
wmontgomery
Loc: Louisiana
I have used recertified drives over the years. I have noticed no difference in failure rates between new or recertified.
Dec 7, 2016 11:26:53 #
Dec 7, 2016 15:56:38 #
My career was in the computer repair area, from printers and typewriters to large (back then anyway) hard disk drives and computers. Refurbished electronic components have less risk, as there are no moving parts. With disk drives, printers, tape drives, and so on; the electronics would be fine. Its the mechanical parts that fail most often, and where the greatest rick would be. Rough handling of the disk drives could bounce the read/write heads against the disk surface; which could lead a high number of bad sectors or a head crash. My recommendation is that refurbished is fine, just don't use them in a "must have" role without some sort of backup process.
Dec 7, 2016 17:12:17 #
You can buy an 'empty' external drive box and power supply for about £20 easy to clip on the wires and mount an old HD inside. Been doing that with my old HD's for several years. I use them as back-ups....oddly the only one that has failed to date was a 'proper' bought external drive. Just check that it has the right connection type for your HD as there are at least two used.
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Dec 8, 2016 05:53:22 #
I have three refurbished Seagate hard drives and they are used for backups etc.
As they are only used occasionally I expect them to last for a longtime
I also have another refurbished hard drive which I use an NAS which is running 24/7 so it remains to see how long that will last.
As they are only used occasionally I expect them to last for a longtime
I also have another refurbished hard drive which I use an NAS which is running 24/7 so it remains to see how long that will last.
Dec 8, 2016 07:06:57 #
G Brown wrote:
You can buy an 'empty' external drive box and power supply for about £20 easy to clip on the wires and mount an old HD inside. Been doing that with my old HD's for several years. I use them as back-ups....oddly the only one that has failed to date was a 'proper' bought external drive. Just check that it has the right connection type for your HD as there are at least two used.
have fun
have fun
I have a couple of boxes similar to the one below, but with a hinged cover. Very convenient.
https://smile.amazon.com/Spinido-Lay-Flat-Tool-free-External-Optimized/dp/B01D61YZB4/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1481198652&sr=1-8&keywords=hard+drive+cases+with+fans
Dec 8, 2016 09:14:25 #
As cheap as hard drives are today, I cannot understand how anyone would be so cheap as to trust their data to something that allowed them to save a small amount of money for buying USED.
Refurbished = USED. NEW drives are not refurbished drives. NEW drives that are sent back in unopened packaging are sold as NEW, don't let a four year old ebay article designed SOLELY to increases sales convince you otherwise.
A 90 day warranty on a hard drive? What a joke! Hard drive warranties are measured in years, not days.
If refurbished drives were so great, the commercial sector would be buying all of them instead of new - they would never see the light of day in the consumer channels.
You know NOTHING about a refurbished drive other than it's USED.
As PT Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute.
Refurbished = USED. NEW drives are not refurbished drives. NEW drives that are sent back in unopened packaging are sold as NEW, don't let a four year old ebay article designed SOLELY to increases sales convince you otherwise.
A 90 day warranty on a hard drive? What a joke! Hard drive warranties are measured in years, not days.
If refurbished drives were so great, the commercial sector would be buying all of them instead of new - they would never see the light of day in the consumer channels.
You know NOTHING about a refurbished drive other than it's USED.
As PT Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute.
Dec 8, 2016 10:29:55 #
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