Question about server hard drives
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Drive reliability goes down with age, a lot. I wouldn't buy used drives to put in a new machine, not HDDs at least.
SSDs maybe - if I would know manufacturing date and how many TBWs they had before purchase. It would have to be something that's a year old or so, not 3-5 years old.
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@pete-s said in Question about server hard drives:
Drive reliability goes down with age, a lot. I wouldn't buy used drives to put in a new machine, not HDDs at least.
xByte doesn't sell used drives. Did someone recommend used? I think just old.
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about server hard drives:
xByte doesn't sell used drives. Did someone recommend used? I think just old.
Aaah, I automatically though used when I read old. My bad!
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For me it would depend on the redundancy level of the RAID along with the age of the drives. I'd also make sure they're all the same speed (and ideally size). If you're using older drives then I would at least dedicate one hot spare and have at least another spare offline, ready as a replacement.
If you're not under time pressure then why not just order it and see if the hard drives work with it? If there is a firmware issue then you'll find out right there.
I've seen enterprise level hard drives last in excess of 10 years (although I can't vouch for their performance at that point, it may be affected), so I think it's worth a shot.
