best black Friday deals on hard drives? I only see modest sales on new drivers, should I go with recertified?
I want to by around 6 drives to add to my nas. I was waiting for black Friday sales but they only have modest discounts, recertified drives on ebay seems more enticing
If you're willing to shuck seagate externals, there is a one from costco. Supposedly seagate is currently using their exos line in their more recently manufactured products. The only downside would be the 1 year warranty.
Exos aren't inherently bad, I believe it is always going to be down to the specific model number as in their latest drive stat blog for q3, one model of 14tb exo had a ~6% failure rate, while the other had ~1.3% failure rate.