A friend of mine linked me to this seller earlier today. They have some pretty tempting deals, but I’ve never heard of them before.

Has anyone bought from them before and was it worth it?

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 day ago

    Thank you for the feedback

    What are you considering buying?

    Mainly just the HDD’s. I already have a server, but having a bunch of extra drives for cheap is really tempting, especially since I haven’t filled out all of the bays

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      14 hours ago

      Well then very little of what I said actually applies!

      Unless you know the hours on a drive, you might get brand new ones, or you might get ones with 50k hours on them. They may also be from the same batch, which isn’t ideal for data durability. If you’re ok with all that, then go for it. I generally don’t buy used drives because I don’t want to take the additional risk.

      I’d be surprised if you can’t find a better deal on used spinning rust though… the shipping alone is probably half the value on a good chunk of sales from SmS.