Hard drives.... I remember those things... didn't I used to use them before the Great HDD and SSD Extinction of 2025-2026?
Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
Thankfully for many folks there's the option of going either with whitelabel or recertified drives!
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: <a href="https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: <a href="https://datablocks.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: <a href="https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
Never buy a recertified drive, talking from my own experience, my recertified Seagate Exos X16 failed exactly after a year. They are very cheap for a reason.
It failed for a reason before, so it will likely fail again before the end of its usual lifecycle.
This has not been my experience at all. All of my NAS drives are recertified enterprise models. I've never had one fail. (But then I've only had a single spinning disk fail on me ever. Generally I retire them because they become too small to justify occupying a slot. Slots are scarce.)
A really long time (at least by residential standards). Close to 24/7 for many years.
If a single HDD failing is traumatic then you're doing something wrong. At absolute minimum you should be in raid1. Backups should amount to snapshots that can be restored in a single step.
> If a single HDD failing is traumatic then you're doing something wrong. At absolute minimum you should be in raid1. Backups should amount to snapshots that can be restored in a single step.
I wasn't storing anything important on it anyway, mostly movies ripped from Blu-rays. So its failure wasn't traumatic. However I expected it to last at least three years, but it died after exactly 365 days of use. The seller refused to send a replacement, and legally speaking, they were in the right.
Melodramatic mutch? The first new IDE HDD I ever bought died within a week. The first new USB HDD I ever bought was dead on arrival. My first server SSD became read only after a year.
Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s
reenorap · · focus · HN ↗
Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
KronisLV · · focus · HN ↗
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: <a href="https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: <a href="https://datablocks.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: <a href="https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
nalekberov · · focus · HN ↗
It failed for a reason before, so it will likely fail again before the end of its usual lifecycle.
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nalekberov · · focus · HN ↗
idk, it was such a traumatic experience for me that I decided to pass on recertified HDDs.
fc417fc802 · · focus · HN ↗
If a single HDD failing is traumatic then you're doing something wrong. At absolute minimum you should be in raid1. Backups should amount to snapshots that can be restored in a single step.
nalekberov · · focus · HN ↗
I wasn't storing anything important on it anyway, mostly movies ripped from Blu-rays. So its failure wasn't traumatic. However I expected it to last at least three years, but it died after exactly 365 days of use. The seller refused to send a replacement, and legally speaking, they were in the right.
noAnswer · · focus · HN ↗
Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s
nalekberov · · focus · HN ↗