[ale] Refurbished HDDs
Boris Borisov
bugyatl at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 13:45:02 EST 2026
Are you guys are trying to make backup of the whole internet :)
On Wed, Feb 4, 2026, 13:33 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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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> 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.
>> >
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>> > ////
>> > ////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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