With RAID 5 if 1 drive fails your OK, but if 2 fail, your dead and looking for
your backup, backup, backup.

Quoting smac at visi.com:

> 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
> > 
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