I’ve had a hard drive throw a fault on my truenas zfs pool, so probably need to buy a replacement. I know about serverpartdeals, but seem to recall another fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller when I bought these 4 years ago. I just don’t remember the name. What retailers are you using for hard drives these days if you have a failure?

In the US btw.

I’ll also try just reseating cables in a bit once the scrub finishes. (just in case that’s all it is)

ETA: the other retailer is goharddrive.com. I’m still interested to hear other suggestions if anyone has them.

Edit2: luckily reseating power and sata cables appear to have fixed it for now. the drive is resilvering, so hopefully I’m good. Thanks everyone for the recommendations, as I know one will fail at some point.

  • immobile7801@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    All 4 of my drives are refurbs from serverpartdeals. They typically come with a 2-3 year SPD replacement warranty. Mine just happened to pass 3 years in April of this year. This is the first failure for me.

    ETA: I think I’ll change my title to refurbished.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Just a heads up, I pulled the drive stats from Backblaze’s drive survey, for most brands failure rates accelerate at 4-5 years.

      At that point Hitachi, Toshiba, and Seagate all increased in failures. Western Digital didn’t, except for their 2014 batch that immediately dropped off.

      Western Digital post 2020 are the most reliable drives.

      Hitachi, Toshiba and Seagate seem to hit a cliff around 2-5 years now, but that only kills about 10% of their drives, so with replication you’re probably fine, just make sure to mix drives so you don’t get correlated failures.