>buy two 8TB HDD outside the country + shipping cost >still

>>56595051
>Also is it worth buying a used HDD?
I did once. I bought a bunch.
Now I have a stack of 2TB's waiting for me to make a filesystem safe enough to use the pieces of shit.

>>56595051
Amusingly, I have the reverse 2x 6TBs, for about the same cost as 1x 8TB.

No. never.

>used HDDs
Might as well buy some used condoms while you're at it.

>>56595074
>>56595105

Are you speaking from experience? I guess the price was too good to be true.

>>56595051
Depends on the price difference. Also price comes into play when you ask if you're willing to put that much on the line

HDD storage seems to have hit a wall. I had expected to double my storage for about the same price as 2x4tb HDD's I bought a couple of years ago by now.

>>56595122
>>56595105
Not who you're quoting, but:

With new HDDs you have your luck and the model's reliability.

When you buy someone else's HDD, you acquire their luck. Not all of my used HDD purchases have failed, but they all have had defects. My 3TB Hitachi takes a while to spin up, and my 2TB 7200RPM Toshiba only writes at 60MB/s.

t. never had an HDD fail until I bought used.