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Refurbished: Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal SSD: 500GB
& More + Free S/H$35
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You can get free software download from Samsung's website. Magician Software will let you clone from the old drive to your replacement refurbished 870. Magician Software also provides firmware updates for the Samsung drives. Very stable, useful drives at a great price point for those on a budget but want a quality name brand drive.
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FWIW, the one I bought one of these (2TB) refurbished from Bestbuy a couple of months ago had a manufacture date of December '24, long past the past firmware issue. Still good to check but I'd expect these to be relatively recent and way past that problem period. Agree on all points, MWink knows their drives.
I ordered a 2TB drive, BestBuy refurb about two months ago. It was manufactured in December of 2024, had been booted three times (my turning it on being the third time), and had transferred maybe 250GB of data during those two other boots (I don't recall the exact number transferred or the powered on hours). It was effectively a brand new drive. Can't promise that they are all that low use but I'm two for two so far (also bought a 500GB drive last year for a different project).
My understanding is that most of these are GeekSquad techs backing up someone's data and then transferring it back to the customer's computer. The numbers I've seen match this theory but I have no inside knowledge. Getting 2-3 years out of it makes me think there was nothing inherently wrong with the drive being used but rather some underlying problem that would have popped up regardless... maybe one of the bad drives/firmware that MWink mentioned above.
Presumably BestBuy as these are used drives. I don't believe they are refurbished in any meaningful sense, just used once or twice and then wiped/verified before reselling. Obviously they can't sell them as new, at that point. I didn't try to register mine but even "refurbished" it's only 6-7 months old.
Which one is more reliable? The 500 or the 1 TB? I'm going to test it in the eufy HB3
FWIW, the one I bought one of these (2TB) refurbished from Bestbuy a couple of months ago had a manufacture date of December '24, long past the past firmware issue. Still good to check but I'd expect these to be relatively recent and way past that problem period. Agree on all points, MWink knows their drives.
I ordered a 2TB drive, BestBuy refurb about two months ago. It was manufactured in December of 2024, had been booted three times (my turning it on being the third time), and had transferred maybe 250GB of data during those two other boots (I don't recall the exact number transferred or the powered on hours). It was effectively a brand new drive. Can't promise that they are all that low use but I'm two for two so far (also bought a 500GB drive last year for a different project).
My understanding is that most of these are GeekSquad techs backing up someone's data and then transferring it back to the customer's computer. The numbers I've seen match this theory but I have no inside knowledge. Getting 2-3 years out of it makes me think there was nothing inherently wrong with the drive being used but rather some underlying problem that would have popped up regardless... maybe one of the bad drives/firmware that MWink mentioned above.
Presumably BestBuy as these are used drives. I don't believe they are refurbished in any meaningful sense, just used once or twice and then wiped/verified before reselling. Obviously they can't sell them as new, at that point. I didn't try to register mine but even "refurbished" it's only 6-7 months old.
I did have bad experience with Crucial MX500, twice, which is why I bought the Samsung 870 to replace it.
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2tb if you have subscription, 1tb is not enough.
Mine is 250 GB. I don't need more nor have extensive library of games
Please enlighten us with some links then
1TB-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5VDNT9
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M49JGKB
2TB-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYLNY4V8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GB8S6R3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M446772
Offbrand, but new not refurb, probably same risk as a refurb Samsung-
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q37V1C9
Like I said, wild that this is a front page refurbished 2.5" SATA SSD deal at these prices. At 120-130 for 2TB you can get Samsung/WD Black NVME drives also.
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A hard dive with high bandwidth is of little use unless you're reading/writing massive amount of data.
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