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70 dollars for a (refurbished) 4 tb hard drive?!? Get the fuck out of here
The cheapest internal 4 tb drive I can find locally is 129 euros, which equals about 150 dollars so it's literally twice as expensive. Fuck, I'd buy two if they were that cheap over here
Edit: I did check out my local craiglist equivalent and indeed, I can find all kinds of hard drives there, internal and external, for much, much cheaper. I've bought used components from there before but as a massive pessimist I've always assumed a used hard drive or SSD would just immediately blow up on me 2 minutes after buying it and moving my shit onto it
Check out eBay. There's going to be a run on this shit so get them while you can. Used HGST enterprise 10TB helium gas drives are really good and can be had for reasonable prices (as of last year). They're kind of a hidden gem, so they sell out, but the prices stay relatively lower than current consumer models with warranty and nice packaging.
Damn, I could get an 8tb helium gas drive delivered to my door for less than 80 euros
Do it! Enterprise drives are typically changed out at about half their life cycle (5-8 years) and they're under constant extreme conditions. So home use is like putting them out to pasture for their retirement years. I'm on a year of several of them without a hitch. Just keep in mind, they tend to be louder than consumer drives.
But when you get them, run a full SMART test. If there's any errors that weren't advertised, send it back. Also, don't buy ones that have errors or bad sectors. Make sure you're getting the SATA versions, not SAS. SATA are the most common consumer grade that can also do enterprise work, plenty fast enough for any home user. If you needed SAS you'd probably already be working in IT and you'll need a bigger budget.
If you don't have a system to fit a proper 3.5" HDD, don't forget to get an enclosure for it!
I should say too, if all you want is mass storage for backups, Toshiba makes a consumer 8tb drive for ~$70 USD. But it is slow and does a data compression thing that further slows it down. Fine for backups and archive, but skip it if you're going to play any media from it.
The 8TB one turned out to be one of those SAS drives, so it's a no go for me. However, those same brand new 4TB drives that are about 130-160 euros here go for about 80-85 euros on Ebay 🤔
Gonna dig deeper