expired Posted by sr71 • Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024 8:20 AM
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expired Posted by sr71 • Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024 8:20 AM
10TB HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC510 3.5" SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive (Refurb)
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Previously i would do 2 backups on Blueray.
Plus if you have movies or a big corn collection. These drives are perfect for that.
Mechanical drives i would buy refurb. Flash or SSD, i would never buy refurb.
Less than $20 bucks. I have whole bunch of drives, and it came in handy. I upgraded to a drive docking station now.
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Note that both options are contingent on the drive still working well enough to be able to mount and read the filesystem.
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Are these drives much different from refurb (insert electronic device here)? No, probably not.
These will wear out, and so will laptops and anything else. These HAVE warranties for 5 years, longer than most refurb laptops if you care about that kind of thing.
I buy refurb off-lease corporate hardware (laptops, desktops, switches, etc) all the time both as a consumer and professional and it's a great way to get reliable equipment at a discount that is usually easy/cheap to repair in the rare event it breaks. Does even Dell itself do much "refurbishing"? No. They wipe the machine and reinstall an OS, sticker them, and ship it essentially. Fine by me and about what you can expect here.
I've bought a used Dyson off of ebay (from this site), fitted a Ryobi adapter, took it apart and cleaned it. Works great and I can swap batteries, negating the only real negative of a Dyson IMO.
I've bought used tires (locally) and they were also fine. Hell, I've bought used car batteries before, lasted years.
There's nothing wrong with used stuff if you know what you need and what you're buying.
If you don't (or just NEED new for whatever reason)..... move along.
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Less than $20 bucks. I have whole bunch of drives, and it came in handy. I upgraded to a drive docking station now.
Sata Cable Connector [ebay.com]
Since the drive comes without any enclosure and cables, I'd have to buy an external HDD enclosure for 3.5 inch drives. Does the enclosure have to provide a separate power supply or is the USB port enough? Are there any other required minimum specs needed to support it, such as SATA transfer speed? Any other gotchas and things to watch out for?
I've done this before converting a 2.5 inch internal laptop hard drive into external, but that worked fine with a simple USB only enclosure. 3.5 seems like a much bigger deal.
Since the drive comes without any enclosure and cables, I'd have to buy an external HDD enclosure for 3.5 inch drives. Does the enclosure have to provide a separate power supply or is the USB port enough? Are there any other required minimum specs needed to support it, such as SATA transfer speed? Any other gotchas and things to watch out for?
I've done this before converting a 2.5 inch internal laptop hard drive into external, but that worked fine with a simple USB only enclosure. 3.5 seems like a much bigger deal.
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There are only 3 mfrs left - Seagate, Toshiba, and WD.
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