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I've bought a couple of refurbs off Amazon before. It's pretty much what you expect. Cheap, but they are not going to last long. I never used them in anything less than a RAID 6 setup, and they were the first drives to fail and be replaced. They can get you over the hump of having to order a whole set of new drives at once, but you shouldn't use more than a few and start replacing them as soon as you can because they may cascade under the load of rebuilding your array.

The one unexpected thing is the drive runtimes were wiped. I could verify by polling the last SMART runs which contained the runtime, and they were in the 4-5 year range.

As long as you buy drives shipped by Amazon, you get their full 30-day return policy. Just run a long SMART test when the disks arrive.

link pleas?

do you guys recommend these renewed HDD?

12 tb, and isnt sas ?

I don't see any comments mentioning this, but you want to stay away from surveillance drives for any other use. They're really only designed for NVR purposes. For multi-purpose or NAS use you want NAS drives.

Amazon refurbished have worked well for me. I have 24 in 2 NAS systems. 60 days uptime only 1 has died. Got another one and resilvered. No down time.

I’ve been running one for a few weeks in my NAS as a parity drive.

It’s fine so far, but damn these are loud. Significantly more than my WD Red of the same capacity (12TB). It’s not a failing drive either, it’s just louder. Probably won’t buy another since my NAS lives in my home office (I’m in an apartment)

Meanwhile, in Europe we're shucking 10TB disks for 300 Euro -+ :|