I needing to expand the old storage pool and have found that there haven’t been many deals as of late. There used to be lots of WD element deals that you could shuck and pop in the NAS. Ive seen the prices also have increased quite a bit. Ive stumbled on the notation of buying Recertified/ Refurbished Enterprise Drives (WD is my preference) and they appear to be a good deal coming wth 12 month warranty. Is anyone here using these and can provide any feedback as to their value and experience ? Am aware Black Friday is around the corner, so this could be my fallback if the sales are disappointing.
Buying Advice - Recertified Enterprise Drives
Stuj on 13/11/2024 - 14:58
Last edited 13/11/2024 - 15:00
Last edited 13/11/2024 - 15:00
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https://east-digital.myshopify.com/ - New (possible recertified) and recertified drives. Ships from either SYD or HK.
Many have ordered from Ozbargain. I myself have bought 4-5 drives with them. returns/exchange are easy or hassle free.
Hmmm I wonder what the Dell branded Drives are actually. I dont see WD there, which are my preference
EDIT: I eventually found them, I dont know what I was doing, They look like a good deal especially with the 3 year warranty
I'll also recommend East-digital.
Their recert drives come with 3 year warranty. Have purchased some for myself and have had no issues.New, recertified or what ever, nothing is bulletproof. Make sure you have a good backup strategy.
He who laughs last has the best backups.
Buy whatever is the cheapest within your budget and make sure you've got a robust backup solution that follows the 3:2:1 rule: 3 sets of data (1 live and 2 archival), on 2 different types of storage mediums with one of those backup copies being stored off-site (e.g. with a cloud-hosted storage provider).
Factory re-certified drives from east-digital, and a robust backup strategy
Thanks for the suggestion here with East-Digital. My backup strategy is only two NASs mirrored. The backup is usually switched off. I dont have any cloud or off site im afraid.
My backup strategy is only two NASs mirrored. The backup is usually switched off. I dont have any cloud or off site im afraid.
Get a few cheap, high-capacity HDDs to use as an offline, archival copy of all the NAS data. Refresh them once a month or something and keep them off-site at someone else's house in some HDD storage cases (you can encrypt the HDDs for peace of mind). It's a good, cheap-and-cheerful insurance policy in case of power surges, hardware failures in the NASes, break-ins, etc or anything that could happen in your home that could potentially wipe out both the primary and backup NAS.
Thanks thats a great idea, I do have 36TB or so, so a few of those HDD Pull drives could do the trick im guessing
IMO if you're going to mirror storage, it's worth looking at mixing up the brand of drives. If you get a bad batch they're more likely to all die close together, which is a hassle. Buying a mix increases the risk that any single drive might die, but lowers the risk of losing a lot of data at once.
I also find it hard to go past OneDrive for a very cheap, very easy cloud backup of important data. I'd like to move to mirroring my NAS on backblaze, but really onedrive does a great job, put all the important documents in there and it's automagically stored on my PC, laptop, NAS and cloud.
YMMV, but I buy whatever's cheap, condition unlisted, potentially busted, whatever. The strike rate with this still works out cheaper than buying proper refurb/recert drives. WD Reds mostly