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    From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to All on Mon Jun 1 11:17:54 2026
    Has anyone ordered or had luck (good or otherwise) with Amazon Renewed
    drives? Looks like they've kicked the secondary drive market people off
    of Amazon, most of the listings are now AR.

    Too bad, I populated my Synology NAS with 5x2TB drives from old systems
    and schucked external drives, and have replaced drives as they went bad
    with white label branded drives from third-parties on Amazon for cheap.
    They came with 3 year warranties. I had one drive go bad after 2 years
    and received a replacement from the seller in less than a week -
    shipping prepaid both ways.

    For home, non-production workloads, it seemed perfect.

    I went to Amazon to look at what it could cost to replace my 2TB drives
    with 4TB drives, and that's when I saw the change in Amazon's listings.

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  • From Shurato@1337:3/185 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jul 15 01:44:00 2026

    Has anyone ordered or had luck (good or otherwise) with Amazon Renewed drives? Looks like they've kicked the secondary drive market people off
    of Amazon, most of the listings are now AR.

    I just bought a QNAP 435Mini and 4 x 10 TB WD refurbished drives off of
    e-bay. Supposedly they have 0 hours of use, 0 bad sectors and 100% health.
    The QNAP was $200 and the drives were $279/each. I had bought 4 SAS 10TB
    Used drives for $170/each, but they were defective. I didn't get to check
    the SMART status as that made the first drive fail and I needed to get some
    of the data off of the RAID array so I didn't test any others... and a DAS
    for $290 as well as a UGREEN 4300 for $350 that I had to return as the drives weren't compatible with it. It was definitely a learning experience.

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  • From Shurato@1337:3/185 to StingRay on Wed Jul 15 12:55:00 2026
    I think it also depends on your set up. Are you running RAID where you
    have HDD failure data redundancy? My two NAS, one DAS, and my full-size servers. I can lose two drives without loss, which is where I feel most comfortable with my configuration.

    It's only 4 bays. I'm not comfortable sacrificing 2 drives, so I'll be using RAID 5.

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  • From Shurato@1337:3/185 to StingRay on Wed Jul 15 13:01:00 2026





    Even new drives can fail, I think it's the luck of the draw either way. I

    The drives I bought have 5 year warranties, so I feel fairly safe.
    Hopefully that means I won't have to use the warranty...

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to Shurato on Thu Jul 16 07:42:44 2026
    Shurato wrote to StingRay <=-

    The drives I bought have 5 year warranties, so I feel fairly safe. Hopefully that means I won't have to use the warranty...

    Are they all from the same lots? I got burned once when 2 drives failed
    within a couple of days of each other - both were manufactured at the
    same time, and failed around the same time... :(

    I bought some cheap 2TB drives for my NAS off of Amazon around 2 years
    ago, white label drives. Nothing special. Came with a 3 year warranty. 4
    of them are doing just fine, one of them failed after a year. I was
    pleasantly surprised when they sent me a return shipping label and
    shipped out a replacement in less than a week.

    I should have bought 4TB drives. With today's prices, I'm kicking myself
    now... :(




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