Buying Refurbished Hard Drives From Ebay - What Could Go Wrong?

I needed to get some new hard drives for my Synology NAS but the cost of new large capacity drives is eye watering so I did something I've never done before and bought REFURBISHED hard drives from Ebay. What could possibly go wrong?

I'll take you through what I received and the price I paid, the drive SMART information, what tools I used in UNRAID to prove the drives before they went in my Synology NAS and how I ended up swapping all the drives in my NAS for the new drives.

So how successful was this and was it worth it?

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0:00 Intro
0:31 Welcome and background
2:25 Options considered
3:45 Hard drive reliability
5:10 Amazon drive prices
5:23 Refurbished drive thoughts
7:34 Amazon and other options
8:36 Ebay refurbished drives
10:39 What drives did I get?
13:43 Prepping drives with UNRAID
17:37 Synology NAS drive swap
19:48 How have they performed?
20:42 Wrap-up and Outro
21:10 Technical difficulties

[Byteofgeek]

If you watched until the end, did it surprise you?

[speedyJhnny]

Very well spoken, informative content, and great production value. Cheers for sharing mate, this was a great watch!

[chrismower]

Interesting watch. Been contemplating a NAS for probably a year now. I was thinking second hand box and spending as much as I can on new large capacity drives, but this give more food for yet more thought!

[ivangutowski]

£9 a tb is really good.

When you priced it that way, it makes new, ssd's at £100 per tb quite a lot more

[myhometvaccount]

when buying these drives ... should always buy an extra one put it in a cheap usb enclosure and attach it to your NAS

then use it as ADDITIONAL extra backup for your important files only (so its used daily)

if a drive fails in the nas can repalace with the spare straight away whilst you wait for the RMA'd drive

then put the repalcement in the now empty usb enclosure...

and so on ....