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Refurbished Hard Drives

I don't think they're any more likely to die than a regular drive. If you go the refurb route, run the WD diagnostic software on it (from their site) which will do a full checkup on the drive. If there's anything wrong with it, you'll get an RMA code and have to pay $10 or so to ship it to them, so you'll still have saved $20, but have a bit more hassle to deal with.

I got a refurb drive from the egg a few months back, it wouldn't format and that's what i ended up doing. I think I came out about $10 ahead on that one (200gb sata.) The only thing to watch for is the warranty length, but as the raptors have 5 years to begin with, you'll have at least 4 left.
 
I can say that as a notebook tech I deal with refurb hard drives all the time when a hd fails under warranty. My experience is to stay away from them. Hell with all of the issues I've seen with refurb drives over the years I don't even send any of my drives in if they fail under warranty. I just go buy another.
 
I don't know is this is true, but as hard drives get old, they slow down. Don't know if this applies to refurbished hard drives.
 
I would stay away. I don't think you save enough over a new drive to justifiy the risk.
 
fluke420 said:
That's crap. Drives do not get slower after age.
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Part fact, part crap. As a drive ages, it may have to work around bad sectors, do more thorough error recovery, and deal with more read errors. The drive doesn't get mechanically slower in terms of seek time/spindle speed, but it may have to contend with some firmware level degradation when actually retrieving data.

Some drives may work 100% like the day you bought them and never experience this degradation - they just die one day. Others may have a longer trip out.
 
I've had refurb drives last for years without any hiccups. However I've also seen them die 'premature' deaths. I look at it somewhat like gambling... don't walk into the casino with money you can't afford to loose :)
 
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