I see some fairly interesting prices for refurbished drives on Amazon, 35~40% cheaper than new. Example here: 16TB Seagate Exos X18 Refurbished at 166€ and New at 260€.

I am considering this option for my home NAS, running with BTRFS RAID10, plus important files are backed-up to a cloud storage, but not my media collection.

In your opinion, how risky is it to use refurbished drives ? Do you have to good or bad experience doing so ?

  • @GreenKnight23English
    2•3 months ago

    my first 1tb drive was Seagate.

    after a firmware update bricked it I swore off Seagate for life.

    I would rather eat a pound of my own shit before I’ll use a Seagate ever again.