Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:

Refurbished: they wipes the dust off

Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.

Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.

And zero moderation!

It’s basically 4chan and OP keeps begging people to join it

Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.

Yeah, dude tried to open his own personal Netflix and is surprised it got taken down.

From post history he managed to keep it up for less than a month.

I’m betting by “friends” he meant either online friends he’s never met, or people he wanted to impress.

So they gave zero fucks and handed it out to more people. Like, just the idea that you’re giving it to so many people that you actually buy a domain?

There’s a reason everyone isn’t already doing it already.

The entire existence of computers outside the last five years…

Yeah, that’s crazy.

I guess all those $100 deals were used too.

So I guess at least used prices went down?

But I remember years ago a shuckable 12tb for like $120-140 on sale wasnt unusual on buildapcsales.

considering they’re used server parts.

That really should be in the title…

I dunno, I’m one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.

So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. But for like $20 more you don’t have to worry about losing the data on it.

Edit:

Apparently prices just haven’t changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.

I mean, the guy who made vlc hasn’t charged for like 15 years now.

For most people the only time they open VLC is to view a file locally. I’m surprised they’re not also trying to become more like plex/jellyfin then pivot to ad supported streaming

You get fronted 10 shares of X, based on the value it is today.

In Y amount of time, you need to pay back those X shares.

So if you think price will go down, you sell the shares immediately, and when you think the price is the lowest, you buy X shares again, and give them to who loaned them to you.

If you don’t buy enough shares, the person you borrowed them from buys them at whatever the price is when the clock runs out. And gives you the bill.

It’s also a way to lose insane amounts of money.

Like do it to 10 shares at $100/share. That’s a grand.

If the price goes up to $200/share, you owe twice as much.

With GameStop, people paid crazy prices a share, because they knew the big investors were all shorting.

No matter how high the price was, they were going to have to pay it. But the only people that really made my net, were the ones who sold. A couple people convinced thousand (millions?) Of idiots to drive the price up and then they cashed out.

Where people fuck up is shorting “penny stocks”. If it’s $0.10/share and you think it’ll go to $0.05/share, there’s a chance it goes up to $1.10/share or even more.

A couple dollars increases in price, and people could owe millions.

When I heard this I knew they’d be stupid enough to tell people before it happened which means insider trading

Also be sure to be reasonable while discussing with other posters. Do not claim “they’re sockpuppets” or “they’re astroturfing in Lemmy” without having evidence for that. (And no, “chrust me” is NOT evidence.) Refer to rule #4.

This is an official warning.

It seemed pretty obvious, but if they read your post, theyd probably have realized it wouldn’t work.

This is an official warning.

FYI, they went straight back to it.

Calling him Kanye… again

Because they keep acting like it…

Why dismiss it outright?

Because I wouldn’t care even if I was still on reddit.

Whatever happened to ‘trust but verify’ ?

If you try to “verify” the ramblings of every person on the internet… you’re going to spend all your time going down rabbit holes.

You have to exercise a bit of selection in what’s worth “verifying” and a reddit conspiracy about the effectiveness of an air purifier isn’t high up on the list of what warrants attention.

Especially when the person claiming it is incredibly unhinged.

Try MySpace

Ok Kanye…

Making four posts in less than an hour and saying everyone who disagrees with you is a sockpuppet is definitely letting people know you’re the rational one.

Not really…

They use the same propaganda tactics as Russia. No matter what the result is or what they said before any mission starts, they declare everything means they succeded and that their now a world super power.

This won’t end well…

Not because of Linux or Windows, but because India’s government is one of the most corrupt in the world, and everyone is just going to get bribed into saying “this is great” and it’ll get implemented without any flaws being addressed