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Are refurbished drives worth it for cold storage? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TeaBagMeister on 2024-07-11 10:28:42.

I picked up a few 12TB WD HGST drives for a very good price (£7 per TB). It says they have been refurbished and the box they came in was very well packaged. The box included a good amount of information about covering the pins they even included the tape.

They have been running for close to 4 years but no errors, I ran badblocks took about 4 days and had no issues. So my question is, are they safe for cold storage or a waste of time? Should I just use them for server etc until they die?

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