It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Clawkikker on 2024-08-12 21:39:47.

I see most people recommend these for storing linux iso's, but is buying new for more important data better or not? I remember reading something about shucked drives from easystore, etc were drives that failed to meet spec of a higher bin and had heads disabled or similar, is this true? Also, I am looking on serverpartdeals and was wondering what manufacturer recertified drives were the most reliable to storage capacity? I know lower density is better for reliability, but what has the best ratio? Backblaze seems to be moving to 16tb drives.