"Made the mistake of buying a refurbished hard drive. SMH"
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.
9. "Lawd don't ever ever ever buy a used hard drive" In response to Reply # 0
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.
10. "Definitely not like buying my used Dell laptop" In response to Reply # 9
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.