Honestly Ive always strayed away from refurb or used drives when possible. If they are tho, i would recommend always checking them on crystaldiskmark and also check for how many bad sectors are on each drive and use the ones that you are comfortable with.
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Damn, these prices are so overpriced. I can find same HD in amazon for less and those in amazon still expensive.
I can find same HD in amazon for less and those in amazon still expensive.
you sure?
I did search and didn't find anything better in amazon, I guess they sold out. Amazon pricing is crap as well. Newegg has similar price to wd.com but you can add coupons there. I try to add coupon in wd.com but it made the price more expensive than without coupon.. ebay has better pricing but they is a lot of scams selling used drives as new since they delete the usage data.
I am on edge of buying a seagate on ebay but not sure. Since they selling it as new but I did some research on them in reddit and some old posts said that ebay seller use software to delete the usage data.. What I learned is that buying hard drives on blackfriday and cyber Monday is a terrible idea. I even saw prices in cyber Monday go up in price.