The word "refurbished" is a misnomer; generally a refurbished drive is a "used" drive. In general the drive was returned with a machine coming off a lease. I'm still using both ATA and SCSI drives that were used/refurbished without a problem. Be aware that they may fail and understand that it's your risk. Backup, Backup, Backup, is the only thing I can say about used drives. I run 5 Seagate Barracuda SCSI drives in my Proliant in a RAID 5 configuration, this limits data loss if 1 or 2 drives fail. Sam. Quoting Sreekumar Kodakara <skodak at cs.umn.edu>: > Hi, > > I am on the look out for Ultra320 SCSI disk drives. This is to increase > the storage capacity of one of our Itanium-2 servers, which we use for our > research. I checked out at bizrate.com and found drives (73.4 GB, maxtor > and seagate) starting at $130 for refurbished ones and $230 for new ones. > Sisnce we have some constraints on purchases > $200, we are thinking of > getting regurbished ones. Are refurbished drives reliable? Any good/bad > experiences? Any good place to get such drives? > > Thanks > > Sreekumar > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list