Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:

Refurbished: they wipes the dust off

Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.

Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.

And zero moderation!

It’s basically 4chan and OP keeps begging people to join it

Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.

They’re not just staying on those instances tho…

When they get defederated (usually long before) they find a small boutique instance (that’s actually valid) but didn’t bother to set up any requirements for account creation then make a shit ton of accounts to troll with.

If you ever look at the main modlog you’ll see there’s a significant amount getting banned on a daily basis.

But they just go make another, and even tho most instances are doing something about it, there’s a surprising amount of zombie instances no one will ever change but are still running for some reason and federated with large instances.

Eventually the main ones will need to “prune” a lot of instances, which shouldn’t be surprising considering a year ago everyone wanted to federate with everyone.

Imagine just walking thru a city and inviting literally everyone to come hang out at your apartment, even giving them the door code to get I to your building. That’s kind of what happened.

They don’t say it, but you can also go to old.reddit and there’s none of those stupid warnings.

Yeah, dude tried to open his own personal Netflix and is surprised it got taken down.

From post history he managed to keep it up for less than a month.

I’m betting by “friends” he meant either online friends he’s never met, or people he wanted to impress.

So they gave zero fucks and handed it out to more people. Like, just the idea that you’re giving it to so many people that you actually buy a domain?

There’s a reason everyone isn’t already doing it already.

The entire existence of computers outside the last five years…

Yeah, that’s crazy.

I guess all those $100 deals were used too.

So I guess at least used prices went down?

But I remember years ago a shuckable 12tb for like $120-140 on sale wasnt unusual on buildapcsales.

considering they’re used server parts.

That really should be in the title…

I dunno, I’m one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.

So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. But for like $20 more you don’t have to worry about losing the data on it.

Edit:

Apparently prices just haven’t changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.

In one study, 990 participants who graduated from business school between 2015 and 2019 were asked a series of questions about their job search, the essential one being, “Did you negotiate your job offer?” Fifty-four percent of women reported negotiating offers compared to 44% of men, contradicting the idea that women don’t ask.

Studies were just people who went to business school…

Like, that’s probably the most likely field to negotiate…

But that author is starting from a flawed premise. Rather than thinking some women are less likely to negotiate due to society norms or not being the primary earner, she thought it meant men were better negotiators.

Women get paid less, because they accept jobs for less pay. Name one company you think is honestly going:

We could pay a man 100k, or we could hire a woman for 80k, so let’s pay more so our employee has a dick

Negotiating isn’t just getting a job and then trying to get more money, it factors in when looking and applying for jobs with listed salary

It’s a complicated issue that’s deeper than “negotiating”. But even your article didn’t get it into the nitry gritty. Because there’s only so much time to go over it.

People simplify things for ease of communication. Not spending 2 hours to list out ever factor in a social media comment doesn’t mean the factors don’t exist. Just who has the time to get that deep?

Your professionally written article doesn’t even really get into it.

Because normal people won’t read all that stuff

For the Dutch…

But most companies want to pay as little as possible, and worker want paid as much

Men are more willing to negotiate for a higher wage. Not all of them, but enough that usually explains this effect for entry level jobs. And a very sizable amount take at least a few years out of work for kids, and that gap usually causes them to earn less when they go back. And that set back keeps them out of the highest positions most of the time, which is why this gap is higher as age increases.

There’s no seasons…

There’s a couple “monsoon months” where you’ll get frequent 15 minute downpours.

But I lived there for a while and went to the beach literally everyday for a year. When it’s always “beach season” people don’t put on that 10-15lbs of winter weight every year. It’s easier to just stay in shape than to get back into shape every year.

Some parts of Florida are similar, but Florida is thrown off by all the elderly Midwesterners that retire in Florida

Honestly, servers are about the only use for HDDs these days.

It’s better to have huge files on a HDD than small ones on an SSD. So get a SSD for operating system and programs. Then a large HDD for media.

https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-hard-drives

You don’t need anything fancy, and you don’t need to deal with multiple drives.

So…

The title of this post is wrong and it’s not new?

I was wondering why someone already made a knockoff “x” till I got till then end of the title…

If you want people to take you serious, come up with your own name, not a knockoff of the most popular dumpster fire. It’s like when mobile games try to sound like AAA console games.

The only people downloading “simplex” from an app store will be confused boomers, which might be what you’re going for.

Lol, your post history even has a comment complaining about how you were banned from “leftwing reddit subs” for trying to spread that “intro to racism” bullshit where you tried to “prove” genetics determine behavior.

It doesn’t. Lots of actual science backs that up.

Go peddle your bullshit somewhere else

Yeah, it’s not like every “purebred purist” is also racist towards humans…

But both groups use the same outdated reasoning with no basis on reality.

And the human racists 100% try to use dogs as a gateway. Convince people breed determines behavior and then later it’s not a huge leap to extrapolate it to other animals like humans.