Hi, I seek your help once again. I’m in the need of upgrading my storage now and I found what I consider to be a good deal via Amazon on an older gen enterprise WD drive that supposedly hasn’t been used, but I’ll let the power on hours tell me the truth. The price is about 16usd/TB and I’m wondering if this is a bad idea due to the age of the drive? I’m guessing the drive would be about 10 years old maybe. The plan would be to buy 2: 1 for my cold media backups and the other would be a backup for the cold media backup.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      Considering this guy is looking to slap some drives into his personal computer in order to store some movies, who gives a shit if they’re enterprise drives or not? I have numerous 6 year old ‘junk’ drives in my server that haven’t given me a single issue the entire time powered on 24/7. It’s not like he’s looking for drives to put in a Facebook datacenter.

    • EasternLettuce@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago
      1. Shucked drives aren’t junk.
      2. 18/tb is still terrible even for enterprise drives, sales can easily bring that down to sub 15
    • JGrffn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      You can get 20tb seagate exos drives for ~$15/tb on ebay, sometimes on Amazon as well.

      • doubletandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        i have 4tb version of exos drive and read error rate is going crazy after more than 2 years running 24/7