[ale] Refurbished HDDs
Jim Kinney
jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 13:33:10 EST 2026
No problem.
I have 18+/- 2TB 3.5" Dell SAS 6G bps drive, a Dell drive array and sleds
with sas2sata interposers. Array supports both. Cables and a pci card come
with it.
You haul. My knee hurts.
--
James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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<http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/>*
On Wed, Feb 4, 2026, 2:30 AM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> I'm not in Georgia to take them and I really am looking for TB-sized
> disks so I will say thanks but I am declining the offer.
>
> On 2026-02-03 05:33, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
> > Alex,
> >
> > When Jim offers hardware, he offers it. I recived a lot from him. Still
> > grateful for the haul. I just saying.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 7:58 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org
> > <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Manufacturers don't refurbish hard drives. It doesn't happen. Third
> > parties "refurbish" by wiping and resetting drive firmware.
> > Manufacture warranties are void.
> >
> > I was not clear in my offer. I'm not asking for money. I just want
> > this hardware hauled away by someone who wants it. I lack time and
> > interest to be involved. So, Alex, if you want this stuff, let me
> > know. Once Alex decides, I'll toss the rest on the group for another
> > rehoming event. I want to unload the entire space formerly used as
> > my test gear server closet. I have several thousand systems at work
> > to wrestle with and I no longer experiment at home with new
> > technologies. At the end of the day, I make tiny, wearable
> > sculptures from silver and occasionally gold or platinum, semi and
> > precious stones, and fused glass. I'm done making invisible things
> > that 99.9% of humans don't understand.
> >
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> > ////
> > ////Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
> > What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a
> > dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> > - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> > ////
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ <http://
> > heretothereideas.blogspot.com/>
> > ////
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2026, 11:54 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org
> > <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> > I'm no stranger to drive failures but I'm also not exactly flush
> > with
> > cash enough to buy a dozen drives at over $300 each. Recall I
> > wasn't
> > asking about used drives, I asked about manufacturer refurbished
> > which
> > is a bit different.
> >
> > This is going in a NAS already, redundancy is part of the
> > process but
> > there's other backups, too.
> >
> > On 2026-02-02 10:20, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > > It's been my experience that high quality disks, such as the
> > Western
> > > Digital Caviar series, will last 5 years and should be
> > replaced at
> > > that time!!! I find most other brands to be suboptimal,
> > e.g., expect
> > > a head crash and catastrophic loss of all data. The Caviar
> > Black disks
> > > spin at 7200 RPM and carry a 5 year warranty!
> > >
> > > I've had poor luck with Seagate. YMMV.
> > >
> > > I realize that a RAID array is redundant but is it worth
> > being cheap to
> > > hopefully replace every failed disk before another one also
> > fails?
> > >
> > > Understand that the MTBF is less than that for one disk
> > increased by
> > > being able to continue until two disks fail. This is
> > because, assuming
> > > all disks of the same type and time in service are more
> > likely to fail
> > > around the same time, same as incandescent light bulbs.
> > >
> > > I suggest, if you use refurbished disks, pick a RAID mode,
> > such as RAID6,
> > > with double redundancy due to two different parities that can
> > withstand
> > > two disk failures in the array.
> > >
> > > Wikipedia's "RAID" entry is excellent.
> > >
> > > If the cost isn't out of your pocket buy new WD Black!
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > [Bob's political comment suppressed by Bob]
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 06:25:39PM -0800, Alex Carver via Ale
> > wrote:
> > >> Anyone have recommendations for an online place to buy
> > refurbished HDDs (not
> > >> SSDs)? I want to add a few more drives to the NAS.
> >
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