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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

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204 points pabs3 | 3 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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fschutze ◴[30 Jun 25 06:14 UTC] No.44420001[source]▶
I never bought used computer parts. Are these parts generally reliable for ~2 years when bought used?
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cornichon622 ◴[30 Jun 25 06:39 UTC] No.44420164[source]▶
Built a gaming desktop for a friend almost 2 years ago; used GPU and CPU (maybe a few others things too), everything's going great. It helps that our local Cragslist offers efficient buyer protection.

Server-side, I also bought used Xeons for an old box and recertified 10TB Exos. No issues there neither.

The HDDs are a bit of a gamble, but for anything else I can only encourage you to buy used!

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1. throwaway2037 ◴[30 Jun 25 08:48 UTC] No.44420948[source]▶

    > It helps that our local Cragslist offers efficient buyer protection.
What does this mean?
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2. cornichon622 ◴[30 Jun 25 22:28 UTC] No.44428615[source]▶
When you buy something on Le Bon Coin, if it's not conform to the description or outright broken, you can very easily get a refund from the platform itself up to 3 days after reception, even if the seller disappeared. I think it encourages people to buy used stuff by removing the main drawback which is "it may not work properly anymore".
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3. throwaway2037 ◴[01 Jul 25 04:01 UTC] No.44430481[source]▶
Cool, I didn't know about this website. Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leboncoin

This sounds like a very good upgrade to Craigslist and eBay!