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.

  • JGrffn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

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

    • doubletandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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