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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Sounds like the term used by Amazon? I picked up eight 18TB "renewed" drives that have been in constant use for over a year now under a ZFS filesystem. Not a single error yet and the pool is about half full. At the time I bought them, they were about $100 cheaper (each) than brand new drives so that saved me quite a bit of money, but they were also a fairly new line of drives so there couldn't have been much previous use on them anyway.