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Is it a good idea to purchase refurbished HDDs off Amazon ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see some fairly interesting prices for refurbished drives on Amazon, 35~40% cheaper than new. Example here: 16TB Seagate Exos X18 Refurbished at 166€ and New at 260€.

I am considering this option for my home NAS, running with BTRFS RAID10, plus important files are backed-up to a cloud storage, but not my media collection.

In your opinion, how risky is it to use refurbished drives ? Do you have to good or bad experience doing so ?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I buy manufacturer refurbished drives from serverpartdeals.com. They come with a 2 year warranty but I've never had a problem with any of them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

And they package drives correctly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am checking it out now, they have great deals, even after accounting for the ~40€ shipping, but I am wondering if I will have to pay additional import taxes/duty, not sure how much this would be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

At least for sweden they appear to have shipping options with taxes/duty included. I don't have in front of me right now, but it was something like 200€ all inclusive shipping on a 500€ order. Something like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was worried of the same thing, but my purchase of several hundred CAD did not have any duties applied. Of course every country and even purchase can be different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I just bought a drive from them last month (from Canada) and just received a $60 duty bill. The time before that I got nothing. YMMV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I just bought a few refurbished 12TB WD Ultrastars off Amazon and it actually says it’s sold by ServerPartDeals. Not sure if it’s the same people but interesting if they are