i have recently built a ZFS array for long term storage, i bought some refurbished drives from ebay from server part deals. Ive seen online alot of people happy with there referb drives so i pulled the trigger on 3 drives. After about a week they arived packed well and were all labeled from 2017. I think thats kinda old, but i guess if its a enterprise grade drive it should matter its got 61655 hours on it. well i was at work and got a fun little notification from notify. and it said dev/sdd was unplugged. I thought that was weird but maybe it was a bug, so on my lunch break i ssh’d into my computer. and it said the same no /dev/sdd. I thought something quirky may have happend like the drive cage rattled and unpluged the drive. either way i wasnt worried because i have a Z2 array for my hardives. but when i got home the drive wouldnt show up on my main rig or laptop. and it makes gravely noises.
i contacted the seller about getting a replacement drive as its under the 90 day warrenty. What are your experiences/recommendations for hardrives?
If the ebay seller is the same as https://serverpartsdeals.com/ then they’re great and have good standing in the community from what I can see. Contact them and get a replacement. This kind of thing happens with used drives.
This is the way. It’s always a risk buying used drives, and everything I’ve seen and heard about them has been good news so I expect OP getting a replacement should be pretty easy.