• sharpiemarker@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The catch is that they’re Seagate drives. Seagate have some of worst reliability in the industry and you’re buying it secondhand from eBay.

    Personally I’d rather just set my money on fire.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a good point. According to BackBlaze’s Q1 2023 report Seagate drives have a 2.28% annualized failure rate. Which is quite a bit higher than the next closest comparison HGST which has a 1.1% afr.

      That risk seems worth it to me at this level of discount.

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        Hey at that price it’s at least not a huge loss if they only last a few years. Best not to keep anything you can’t replace on them anyway.