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    HitS tips for buying drives

    New vs "Refurbished"/used, dispelling myths, cycling and more.
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    2024-10-28, 07:51 AM (This post was last modified: 2024-10-28, 07:59 AM by Duvel. Edited 3 times in total.)
    I personally ONLY use refurbished hardware that is decommissioned from professional environnement after > 5 years.
    This include HDD and SDD disks.
    I always take Dell servers and their 8-12 Dell disks, that i reconfigure in several grapes of RAID-1 (SDD) or RAID-5 (HDD). The RAIDs are running on hardware via Dell's IDRAC.
    I upgrade the hardware (server and disks) every 3-4 years, only to get better CPU power/electrical consomption rate, and its currently my 5th server (and disks) installment.

    --> I NEVER faced a disk failure over the last 10 years.

    So the statement to " NEVER get a drive second hand" is largely a myth nowadays. It all depends on the original quality.You will hardly have any issue with good professional datacenter material that is 5-10 years old, in the context of re-using it for a home server
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    HitS tips for buying drives - by Host-in-the-Shell - 2024-10-25, 03:10 PM
    RE: HitS tips for buying drives - by Duvel - 2024-10-28, 07:51 AM
    RE: HitS tips for buying drives - by Symantec - 2024-12-02, 03:07 AM

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