6/23 What exactly is a refurbished hard drive? I've been running
my replacement Seagate refurb drive for a few weeks and
ActiveSMART already thinks its going to fail in a 2 weeks.
Do they just low-level format all the defective drives and
reship them out?
\_ Please tell me this is a troll.
\_ well, it's a chance you took, and be a man and live with it.
\_ well, if it is true, this is class action lawsuit material.
\_ So you scored in the bottom quartile on the LSATs huh?
\_ chance he took? many hard drive manufacturers replace returned
drives with refurbished ones. It's as if consumers generally
get to choose what kind of replacements they get. anyhow, it's
still under warranty, right?
\_ Yea. But remember you loose $$ for shipping the defective
\_ "lose"
drive back everytime and warranty time while doing the
swap. (It also wastes your valuable time and effort.)
So if I have to swap a drive a few times during its 3 year
warranty, the effective cost is incredibly higher than
the original purchase price. This is wrong.
The consumer shouldn't haveta pay for the manufacturer's
defects when a product is still under warranty.
\_ I personally had better luck with my IBM SCSI harddrive.
I mean, for some reason SCSI harddrive gets much better
treatment than the IDE counter part. Having said that,
if I have choice, i really don't want to go through that
again. A defective Harddrive is a pain in the butt.
\_ Yeah, and you pay for it. At least it use to be true
that each and every SCSI drive is tested, while IDE
drives are only batch tested.
\_ This is a case of getting what you paid for. Don't ever buy
refurb drives. Period. --Motd Storage Guru
\_ Hrm. I've had very good luck with all my refurb
drives. I haven't lost any. Then again, I'm talking
about 1995 SCSI drives that work even after they start
to lose their bearings. But yeah, I wouldn't touch a
refurb IDE drive.
\_ Do you use the refurbs as temp space or for real data? -MSG
\_ I don't use them any more, because of space limitations,
however, I used them for years as my only storage, without
backups. Drives *used* to be reliable, even if refurb.
\_ I second this. My failure rate on refurbed drives is probably
10X what it is on new ones.
\_ I never buy refurb drives. I buy retail drives that fail
in a few months and get refurb drives in exchange. Perhaps
the guru could enlighten us on the best storage strategy in
his/her opinion.
\_ Depends on how much cash you've got and how important your
data is. For home use, a simple IDE mirror is probably a
good choice. For work I do raid3,4,5, mirrors, or 3,4,5
plus mirror for some stuff. Which of 3,4,5 I use and whether
or not it gets mirrored as well depends on what data goes on
it. Nothing is refurb. Things like the database goes on
fiber channel with stripe and mirror. Customer owned data
is raid4 or raid5 on IDE. Only a little bit of scsi here and
there. I figure if I'm going to shell out scsi level prices
I might as well get fiber channel and be done with it. -MSG |
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