Questions regarding Old-new Hard drives - eviltoast

Hi, I seek your help once again. I’m in the need of upgrading my storage now and I found what I consider to be a good deal via Amazon on an older gen enterprise WD drive that supposedly hasn’t been used, but I’ll let the power on hours tell me the truth. The price is about 16usd/TB and I’m wondering if this is a bad idea due to the age of the drive? I’m guessing the drive would be about 10 years old maybe. The plan would be to buy 2: 1 for my cold media backups and the other would be a backup for the cold media backup.

  • Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    I just placed my first order with them a couple of days ago. It looks like a great source, and there are lots of happy users.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      11 months ago

      I bought my last 14TB drive with them after buying new ones over the last 6 years. I definitely wish I would have heard about them sooner as I could have a lot more storage at a lot lower price if I had.