[Leaplist] Refurbished Hard Drive

[Ram K. Singh]

Thanks Gentlemen,

I appreciate your input. I would stick with new 2.5" portable drives since the files on the drive would be very valuable family photo and documents.

Ram




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From: Kevin Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org>
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Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 6:36:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Refurbished Hard Drive

To add to the cacophony here I agree largely with Bryan. Refurb means
one thing: it failed for somebody (or several people) at some point in
it's life cycle (most likely early on) and that by definition make
something like a hard drive suspect. However it's all about the data.
How important is this data? Is just backups? Maybe this would be just
fine. Are you going to use it in a RAID or mirror to another cheap
refurb drive? There again since the likely hood of two points of
failure is not likely it would be fine. Have to weight out the cost vs
risk. Do you get a warranty of any kind? The seller doesn't want this
returned (yet again) so it's not super likely to fail at least not in
the warranty cycle anyway. If this were your primary and only data
drive I would not trust it.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> First off, I would never, ever recommend the purchase of a
> refurbished hard drive.  Mechanics are things I never like to
> get refurbished.
>
> Secondly, as you may have noticed, I'm partial to 2.5" drives.
> Now I'm partial to 2.5" drives for everything, internal and
> external.  But while some could argue 3.5" internal drives
> (especially since 3.5" prices have dropped while 2.5" have not
> nearly as much), I wouldn't disagree, I absolutely believe 3.5"
> external drives should _never_ be purchased.
>
> So for an external drive, I would recommend this 1TB drive
> (WDBABM0010BBK):
> http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=722
>
> It is a 2.5"x12mm high drive with 3 platters at 333MB/platter.
> I've seen them for $160 on-sale.
>
> Yes, it's more than a 3.5" drive.
>
> But as someone who has flown at least twice per week, pockets his
> drive in his bag and pulls it out at least twice per day, etc... for years,
> I can honestly say I abuse the heck out of the half-dozen 2.5" external
> drives I have.
>
> None have died yet.
>
> Cannot say the same about the 3.5" FreeAgent Pro drives that sat
> on my desk in New York for 6 months.  I know others have had issues
> with their MyBook as well.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ram K. Singh <rksingh54 at yahoo.com>
>
> I am looking for a USB Hard Drive of one TB Capacity.
> I am finding many Refurbished drives for a reasonable price.
> Do the professionals have opinion on Refurbished drives?
>
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