{"id":7986,"date":"2023-02-04T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2023-02-04T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:41:03","slug":"buying-certified-refurbished-hard-drives-with-warranty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7986","title":{"rendered":"Buying certified refurbished hard drives &#8211; with warranty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serverpartdeals.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/serverpartdeals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sever Part Deals<\/a> is a website that offers <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/serverpartdeals.com\/collections\/all?_=pf&amp;pf_t_type=type%3AHard%20Drives&amp;pf_t_interface_type=interface%3ASATA&amp;pf_st_stock_status=true\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/serverpartdeals.com\/collections\/all?_=pf&amp;pf_t_type=type%3AHard%20Drives&amp;pf_t_interface_type=interface%3ASATA&amp;pf_st_stock_status=true\" target=\"_blank\">high quality, manufacture refurbished, and warrantied enterprise hard drives<\/a>. Many of them come with 2 year warranties and come in gigantic capacities from 10-20TB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I would never trust a refurbished single drive with my critical data, I run a RAID 5 system with redundancy and find these drives to have been very good in such a setup. If one dies, I can hot swap a spare in and keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently did this with some 8TB drives, and they have been working great for the last 3 years without a single hiccup, heat issue, or SMART error. You want to make sure you&#8217;re <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2022\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\">buying reliable drives to begin with (cough cough: massive and long-standing history of high failure rates with Seagate)<\/a> &#8211; but baring that &#8211; my HGST&#8217;s have been amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sever Part Deals is a website that offers high quality, manufacture refurbished, and warrantied enterprise hard drives. Many of them come with 2 year warranties and come in gigantic capacities from 10-20TB. While I would never trust a refurbished single drive with my critical data, I run a RAID 5 system with redundancy and find these drives to have been very good in such a setup. If one dies, I can hot swap a spare in and keep going. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7986\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-24O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}