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304515, Made the mistake of buying a refurbished hard drive. SMH
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Thu May-09-19 07:25 PM
I found a great deal on a Western Digital 2GB external hard drive about two months ago and pulled the trigger. The only issue was the drive was factory refurbished and not new.
I was skittish about buying a refurbished hard drive. The hard drive was factory refurbished so at the least it was refurbished with the best possible service. (or so I like to think)
The drive was a backup of my work-related files. I also keep my files backed up in the cloud but in the event, a file was accidentally deleted a copy would be available.
It worked fine for the first two months and then I noticed the drive's partition magically vanished.
I restored the partition but of course, all of the data was lost because the partition can only be set if the drive is formatted.
I tried to run Recuva to restore the files but that was Hail Mary which didn't work out.
I know that even fresh drives fail at times so this event could just be a coincidence but I plan on never buying refurbished memory related components again.
Thankfully, I have my cloud files so I at least have that as a backup.
** THE MORE YOU KNOW **
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304516, isn't a new HD cheap AF anyway?
Posted by will_5198, Thu May-09-19 08:52 PM
I guess I agree with what you're saying
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304518, True.
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Thu May-09-19 11:17 PM
The hard drive new was like $70 and the refurbished one was $40 so it was almost half off.
But like RJCC typed, it would have been worth it to spend the extra $30.
Lesson definitely learned.
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304517, yeah man. it's like tires. some things you don't want to spend less on
Posted by Rjcc, Thu May-09-19 09:12 PM
and like will said, storage is wild cheap now.
www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
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304609, that's a typo right? "2GB"
Posted by PG, Thu Jun-27-19 03:08 PM
had to check the date on my time machine.. felt like mid to late 90s for a second there.
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304610, Ha!
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Fri Jun-28-19 09:47 PM
Yeah, I forgot to mention the drive was a Zip drive. I had a bunch of AVI's and Real Player media files on it. LOL
Yeah, it was a 2TB drive. The factory new drive that I bought is working out well now. Lesson learned.
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304611, LOLLLLL
Posted by Rjcc, Fri Jun-28-19 09:48 PM
yeah I figured it was 2tb and just moved on. but wow.
www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
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304614, Huh?
Posted by jetblack, Sun Jun-30-19 02:15 AM
SSDs (SATA/M2) are cheap AF.
HOW SWAY?!
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304615, they're still not thaaat cheap
Posted by Rjcc, Mon Jul-01-19 01:24 AM
www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
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304649, Lawd don't ever ever ever buy a used hard drive
Posted by jaboonday, Tue Aug-06-19 12:34 PM
Never ever ever ever. It's like buying a used set of tires. Hard drives are constantly in use, and they wear down over time due to the fact they have moving mechanical parts inside.
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304663, Definitely not like buying my used Dell laptop
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Wed Aug-07-19 06:21 PM
Bought that thing about eight years ago and was working really well before I retired it. Got a new laptop which had a faster CPU but that laptop got me through a bunch of projects.
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304721, thats like buying used underwear.
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Wed Aug-21-19 12:42 PM
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304724, That's like letting Burb moderate your boards.
Posted by Nopayne, Thu Aug-22-19 08:25 PM
Everything is gonna be fine until it isn't.
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304739, LMAO!
Posted by exactopposite, Wed Sep-04-19 09:34 PM
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304740, still
Posted by Rjcc, Wed Sep-04-19 10:20 PM
www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
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304746, Aw, man. That's cold.
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Fri Sep-06-19 06:34 PM
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