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Advice needed: is it ok to buy used enterprise disks that ran for 50k hrs? (zerobytes.monster)
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IEatLintFromTheDryer on 2025-07-21 17:00:48.

A seller on eBay sells data center disks (Toshiba MG07ACA14TE) 14 tb drives for 125€ each. Each disk was started and stopped less than 20 times, ran constantly for 48k to 50k hrs. The seller provides a printed out health check up for each disk and guarantees that the disk is 100% healthy, no bad sectors etc. Is it advisable to buy a few disks for my home set up?

Since I can not let my pc run 24/7, the drives will be turned on and off again twice daily. 14tb drives cost around 280€ around me new. Thanks for your advice

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