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Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

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149 points walterbell | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LeifCarrotson ◴[12 Nov 25 18:44 UTC] No.45904120[source]▶
It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon.

I don't buy drives on Amazon for my 9 year old's laptop because of the rampant fraud and counterfeiting, I'm shocked that they're trusted for any business use-cases by anyone moderately savvy. I'm even more shocked that the takeaway is to blame the individual seller, rather than the marketplace that makes it possible.

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greenavocado ◴[12 Nov 25 18:52 UTC] No.45904264[source]▶
I buy used enterprise hard drives that have been pushed hard. My current biggest NAS runs six used 14 terabyte enterprise hard drives and three have failed so far within a year. Each time I was able to get a warranty replacement and the replacement was in much better condition than the original ones I had. Zero data loss because of ZFS RAID Z2. I was able to measure the condition of the surface of the platters and other useful metadata using Victoria https://hdd.by/victoria/ included on Hiren's BootCD PE.
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iberator ◴[12 Nov 25 19:12 UTC] No.45904693[source]▶
Which manfucaturer is the best and worst one?
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1. greenavocado ◴[12 Nov 25 20:52 UTC] No.45906494[source]▶
I just get whatever is cheapest with a warranty of one or more years. RMA ability is most important when buying these kinds of heavily used decommissioned drives. ZFS RAID Z2 is absolutely key to preventing data loss here.