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Seagate opens an eBay store to sell refurbished hard drives — 22TB drives for $311 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone is expecting a refurbished disk to last longer and I don't know why you're trying to argue based on that...

[–] 9point6 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Would you buy a disk expecting it to fail in less than a year?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I expect the failure rate to be higher than on a brand new product, you're just making the assumption that because it failed once (if it actually did, could simply be a disk that was returned after purchase) it will fail again as quickly, which is a pretty bad assessment.

[–] 9point6 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, though it's not an assumption, it's based on the reputation of Seagate making new drives that fail quickly. I've made a point of emphasising this.

Even if the drives were never used they've been shipped about a few places, so they will objectively not be as good as new drives, even movement is potential wear on spinning disks—the new drives that are already shit.

I'm really sorry, but I'm not really sure how I can spell this out clearer than I already have.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh you make spell it very clearly that you're just making a bunch of assumptions and don't understand what refurbished means or how mass production works, no need to worry.

[–] 9point6 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I do, but never mind; let's not waste each other's time

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Nope, you don't :)