Would you buy a used hard drive?

Would you buy a used hard drive?

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I don't want to be entrapped.

For the right price, guaranteed to work on arrival, sure.

No, I am not poor.

oh snap I never thought about it that way

yeah nah

Must be nice

Sure, I RAID that shit so any disk is fine for me.

> new second-hand HD
> go sector browsing
> find image file headers
> run basic recovery
> TEENYFUCK004.MOV
> TEENYFUCK005.MOV
> TEENYFUCK006.MOV
> TEENYFUCK007.MOV
> TEENYFUCK008.MOV

mfw

I sold a bunch of 1.5TB Samsung eco green drives on eBay. Each had power on hours over 40k, one had some reallocated sectors that I managed to make go away after zeroing the drive.

Good luck to the poor cunt who bought them lol.

>dumpster dive some old computers
>check hard drives
>medical records from a youth mental hospital
>life stories, recovery journals and the like

If it was very cheap. I stole a hard drive from work and 2 years later it's still fine.

Give it back Tyrone!

that's a HIPAA violation, should have blackmailed them that's a $50k a day fine.

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I did. I bought a brand new used HDD for my laptop. SMART told me it was barely used and it laid for two years in some storage.
There were plenty of cheap HDD some time ago because many people were replacing them with SSDs

The $15-25 drives are fine because you just need them to work for a short while usually.

That's several HIPAA violations. He could have had the whole hospital by the fucking balls, they would have paid him a million dollars just to shut the fuck up.

define "short while"

I just got a deal on fleabay for 2x3TB Seagate Constellation SAS drives for another RAID array in my server. 2x $55. They should be new, but if they aren't, they're still pretty useful and will probably last for many years.

I was being made to work for the dole and i did a damn good job of it so i don't feel guilty. I am 100% certain that if i had asked to take it he would have said "no problem" but i wasn't going to ask.

Until they break which is likely less than a year

have a $15 WD Black 80GB in my laptop right now

>hard disk
lol what year is this? we ssd now

go back to your 1st world shithole

I buy used computers all the time. Any time I need a HDD, I start with the biggest one in the box and work my way down, scanning for bad sectors with a live disk.

I also keep all my data on a backup drive.

>dumpster dive small police station dumpster
>crack open copiers and pull drives
>get SSN and info on practically everyone in town

Copier companies charge extra to wipe the data and a lot of places are cheap.

>Seagate
>last for many years
Oh, man... I haven't laughed like that since I was a toddler.

My Segate which lasted for 8 years on my windows vista computer was good. I sold the hdd along with the pc though but 8 years is a long time

Just replaced one of mine that ran for 28100 hours in 5 hours, only lost 2 sectors but it became incredibility slow in the last month so I changed it out.

>5 hours
5 years

We know you meant hours the first time user, no need to shill for seagate

or you can drill holes into it
Source: Mr.Robot

If I knew for a fact it had very little use and the price was extremely good and I was able to test it before hand then yes. Otherwise no. I want drives to be reliable first and foremost. I'm generally not willing to take the risk on used.

I've owned a Seagate, it's holding up for almost 5 years.
It's slow as fuck compared to my WD they both have the same cache and rpm.
My question is, I need a new HDD. I'm running out of space because I live in a rural area and it takes days to download just about anything. It took 4 days to download a 4gb iso.
Do I get another WDblue or are Hitachis worth it?

Got myself a used 3TB HGST ultrastar. It's on 22k hours and it was powered on for 40 times only. SMART says its good but the temperature and spin up time values are fucked up. Gonna upload it later.

would you buy used toilet paper

yes. i got one from ebay beause it was almost free compared to the prices of new drives from a local store. its a hitachi drive and it has been working for 2 years now.

are you talking about a paper copier or something else? never seen those with hdds

Redpill me on HDDs guys. I'm gonna buy my first one in a few weeks (with an external case) for data backup+storage. I think I'll need at least 1tb. The seagate are the cheapest but you guys seem to hate them. What should I buy ?

I've been running a RAID 6 off of 12 refurbished Hitachi 2TB Ultrastars that I got for 40$ a piece for three years with 0 Problems. I bought two as backups and I don't see having to use them any time soon. Those drives were truly forged by the gods.

I almost did once but the risk is just way too high. I wouldn't recommend it unless you can get them for super cheap and you go for a ton of redundancy.

I don't see any problems with it.

Just check the SMART data before buying them.

>I'm gonna buy my first one in a few weeks
What have you been using to store data before this, slabs of rock? Tapes?

I think he only buy pre-built pc or laptop, and never built his own pc.

I bought one when I softmodded my PS2. No complaints.

i would and then data mining for some nudes and lolis

$0.02 per gb here is pretty cheap

HIPAA shit needs to be destroyed.

Debating on deskstars, but I'd like a faster rpm because it will store games. But I also like longevity of WD I've experienced. I could get a few and put them in raid 10 and really make up the difference for RPM
Thoughts?

I bought my NAS with a 2TB drive, still spinning.

I also bought some Dell server with 4x 1TB drives for $60, they are all also still going.

I sold the server for $5, worth it senpai.


Just remember to backup your files, and RAID IS NOT A BACKUP

why not , some say a used one is more reliable than a new one due to the bathtub curve they have regards that
also cost

i run 2 Seagate and one western digital along side an OCZ boot SSD (60gb) ,
all drives that failed where either rather new (sub 3 months for a failure) or took damage (dropped etc.)
pic related

>ssd
good goy

Yes, I've done it few times. They were cheap and almost unused, less than 10h of use before they were taken off and replaced with SSDs.

I buy them all the time. Recover the drive as best I can. I've found some drives from some surprising companies that were more than happy to buy them back so they could secure their data and fire the IT guy that was supposed to destroy them.

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