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Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.

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[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I just bought two of their 12TB for $100 each and they were the manufactured recertified. One had like 8 hours run time and the second had like 36 hours so brand new for the lifetime of a hard drive. So far no issues. Also beware these drives are very loud.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Refurbished drives get their SMART data reset during the process, they absolutely had more than that originally.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Oh wow I did not know that.

That's absolutely terrifying. Like resetting the speedometer for used cars.

[–] cdombroski@programming.dev 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You mean odometer, resetting the speedometer wouldn't be a bad thing.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hang on, you don't typically buy your cars at 15Km/h?

[–] spechter@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Usually I buy them at a slower speed as I'm not in shape

[–] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

You'd better hope that be pretty close to zero before attempting repairs.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

That's why you run a couple rounds of preclear to stress them and then run a fresh smart report.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Amazon reseller for xbox drives was getting 10 year old dirty crusty drives and swapping the HD controller to a more recent one. So SMART report looked like a young drive. Xbox casing had a sticker or warranty void. So me being me wondered and opened it to find a dirty ass old drive inside. i called Amazon and initially they said it is outside of return window and warranty...But i explained it doesn't matter when I detected the fraud it is still fraud. So they gave me my money back

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This has got me concerned, wondering how do you tell it's old if the controller is replaced? Are there serials or dates on the other parts or just obvious wear?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

For the ones I had, the corrosion of the metal and stained labels was the give away (looked like they had been out on an autoshop repair bench), but each part had its own label dates. HDD was way older date than the controller board.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

I think there is a difference on Refurbished drives and Manufactured recertified. On server part deals the prices were different and manufactured recertified being a little more expensive for the same drive. So I assumed the drives were send back from a data center and tested again but they cant be spelled as new.

[–] Mir@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah I think that's normal , I moved my NAS to a closet because of how loud the drives are. I wasn't even able to sleep with that noise lol