Comment by t312227

2 days ago

hello,

thanks for the great article!!

2 remarks from my side:

* some smartctl -a ... output would have been nice ~ i don't care if it is from "when the drives where shipped" or from any later point in time

* prices are somewhat ... aehm ... lets call them "uncompetitive" at least for where i'm at (austria, central-europe, eu)

i compared prices normalized by cost pro TB with new (!) drives from the austrian price-portal "geizhals"

* https://geizhals.at

for example: for 3,5 inches HDDs sorted by "price / TB"

* https://geizhals.at/?cat=hde7s&xf=5704_3.5%22~5717_SATA%203G...

sometimes the prices are slightly higher for the used (!) drives ... sometimes also a bit lower, but imho (!) not enough to justify buying refurbished drives over new (!) ones ...