I ordered refurbished HDDs for my NAS - are they really that bad?
While I wouldn't use them to store essential files, refurbished drives are somewhat useful in cost-effective file-sharing servers
Over the last couple of months, I’ve reviewed several Network-Attached Storage enclosures and tinkered with multiple NAS-centric distributions. As such, I keep a separate set of Seagate IronWolf drives and Crucial SSDs just so I can subject the storage enclosures and NAS operating systems to a series of tests. Unfortunately, this leaves me with a few drives for my home lab experiments, and I’m often on the prowl for cheap deals on storage disks.
