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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:02 PM
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Would you buy a factory refurbished external hard drive?
Usually I wouldn't hesitate for a second to buy a factory refurbished product, but for some reason I'm hesitant to buy a refurb hard drive.

MrsCoffee would execute me gangland-style if it failed and we lost photos. I know that any drive could fail, but it would be entirely my fault if a refurb drive failed, because why did I buy a refurb drive in the first place?

So am I being oddly/wrongfully distrustful of a refurb hard drive?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:06 PM
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1. What usually fails in external drives is not the drive itself.
It's just about always the drive power/interface board inside the case in my experience. Every time I cracked the case open and removed the drive and connected it with my adapter the drive was fine and I was able to read the data. I got one that I put in a new case and it's still working two years later.
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