Celcius_87

External usb hdd

I’ve been getting rid of my physical media too. I still have my UHD movies but I don’t even watch them…

There's likely nothing wrong with it

Same

I have ssd’s still in daily use that are like 12 years old. The only hdd’s I use are externals for my data backup though.

Should be fine imho. Going a year without power shouldn’t be an issue or else tons of people would have issues worldwide

I personally don't trust used and would rather just pay more and buy new, but then again I value my data (and also have backups).

Should have grabbed the 18tb WD easystore at bestbuy for $200

18tb were recently this price and I got one, but imho this is still a good deal. You could buy this, hold it until cyber Monday, and if the 18tb doesn’t go back on sale then keep it and be happy.

What program are you using to test the drive?

Has anyone ever heard of something bad coming from techs at a hard drive company that went through the contents of a returned drive and then took malicious actions? If they fix a drive and decide to resell it, do they zero out or reformat the drive? (Assuming you deleted the data from the drive and deleted the partition but didn’t do the whole “spend hours zeroing out the drive”)

WD 4 me