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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.

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[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$18/TB is a crazy high price. I've bought most of all my WD drives new for <$15/TB by waiting for sales on Easystore/Element drives

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He said enterprise drive. Not junk external drive with less cache

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] doubletandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm too retarded to understand SMART values so, I 100% have read errors on them, I have no idea what the numbers mean, though, so I can't say how bad it is. I don't see critical failures or unrecoverable errors being reported on them, so I don't sweat it too much.

[–] doubletandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

mine haven’t failed but it failed to mount from time to time. if you have production environment to run consider taking a look at backblaze drive failure report.since i have nothing important on the drive i will keep it running until its final day though