I strongly agree. It's unethical for manufacturers to sell refurbished HDDs at prices similar to new ones from just a few years ago. This is a clear attempt to exploit consumers during tough economic times. Many of these refurbished drives come from returned items that were leased to companies, and now they're being resold at inflated prices.
To make matters worse, I came across an article stating that HDD manufacturers have hiked prices on new products by 20-25%. This price increase is likely an attempt to push consumers towards buying these overpriced refurbished units.
I urge everyone to be cautious and consider the long-term reliability and value of their purchases. Don't fall for these greedy tactics—it's better to wait for better deals or consider other storage options. Let's not support these unethical practices.
So are data center/server harddrives constantly written to? Or sit powered ON for 5 years with data stored? So is the 2.5M h data write failure applicable?
I strongly agree. It's unethical for manufacturers to sell refurbished HDDs at prices similar to new ones from just a few years ago. This is a clear attempt to exploit consumers during tough economic times. Many of these refurbished drives come from returned items that were leased to companies, and now they're being resold at inflated prices.
To make matters worse, I came across an article stating that HDD manufacturers have hiked prices on new products by 20-25%. This price increase is likely an attempt to push consumers towards buying these overpriced refurbished units.
I urge everyone to be cautious and consider the long-term reliability and value of their purchases. Don't fall for these greedy tactics—it's better to wait for better deals or consider other storage options. Let's not support these unethical practices. - dbuilder
What are you talking about? You couldn't get brand new 14TB consumer grade drives for $100 a few years ago, nor today, let alone enterprise grade drives.
This isn't even sold by the HDD manufacturer so not relevant to manufacturer inflation.
What is this "better deals" you would suggest? It's a refub enterprise HDD for less than a new one. You can't go backwards in time to what any (lower capacity) HDD used to cost. We're past that.
So are data center/server harddrives constantly written to? Or sit powered ON for 5 years with data stored? So is the 2.5M h data write failure applicable? - Davevman
MTBF only tells you infant mortality, which any of these have exceeded already.
Some data center drives are written to more often than others, depends on which clients are on it and what their individual write load is.
There's no guarantees of anything except their 5 year warranty, which does not remove the need to have data backups of one form or another.
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To make matters worse, I came across an article stating that HDD manufacturers have hiked prices on new products by 20-25%. This price increase is likely an attempt to push consumers towards buying these overpriced refurbished units.
I urge everyone to be cautious and consider the long-term reliability and value of their purchases. Don't fall for these greedy tactics—it's better to wait for better deals or consider other storage options. Let's not support these unethical practices.
To make matters worse, I came across an article stating that HDD manufacturers have hiked prices on new products by 20-25%. This price increase is likely an attempt to push consumers towards buying these overpriced refurbished units.
I urge everyone to be cautious and consider the long-term reliability and value of their purchases. Don't fall for these greedy tactics—it's better to wait for better deals or consider other storage options. Let's not support these unethical practices. - dbuilder
This isn't even sold by the HDD manufacturer so not relevant to manufacturer inflation.
What is this "better deals" you would suggest? It's a refub enterprise HDD for less than a new one. You can't go backwards in time to what any (lower capacity) HDD used to cost. We're past that.
Some data center drives are written to more often than others, depends on which clients are on it and what their individual write load is.
There's no guarantees of anything except their 5 year warranty, which does not remove the need to have data backups of one form or another.
Thank you!