I haven't bought myself a new hard drive in a couple of years. SCSI drives being rather pricey, I decided to give refurbs a try and so far so good. A couple of years ago I picked up a 10 pack of 18GB 10k rpm FC-AL drives off eBay for $200. Then last October I bought a pair of 36GB 15k.3s ($90ea) and a 73GB 10k drive ($99) from www.unityelectronics.com. So far I've only had one dud- one of the $20 a pop FC-AL drives started having some serious issues after a few months. I think it's a dead PCB, as it fubars the loop when attached.
Anyone else out there running refurb drives? How are they doing?
Anyone else out there running refurb drives? How are they doing?