Refurbished SSD for Server?

[M_Chang]

Hi there! Hope y’all are having a great holiday season!

Found this place after seeing a post about a Kioxia 7tb Solid State Drive and it seemed like y’all knew your stuff.

I was hopin to see if anyone would know anything about buying refurbished Solid State Drives.

I am currently working for a small college department doing procurement, usually for office supplies and things like that. We have a new faculty that had considerably more IT support before moving here.

They brought along two Dell PowerEdge 7525’s and wanted to increase the storage.

They have these 4tb Dell 8W2G5 inside them and cost a couple thousand on Dell off the dell website.

After some searching, it seems that they are Kioxia branded CM6 Solid State Drives which I’ve found online refurbished for $350 or new off Newegg and ServerSupply at around $600

Their previous IT guy provided a link to EnteraSource which sells refurbished ssd’s but they also said they don’t recommend buying them.

Looking online the consensus seems to be not to buy them but I’m uncertain as to why.

I guess the questions boils down to:

1. Is refurbished actually not worth it?
2. Are there any alternatives? Can i get these square Western Digital 4tb Solid State Drives for $200 new off amazon instead?

Thanks in advance for y’alls help!

[twin_savage]

I wouldn’t personally buy refurbished SSDs, but I would buy used SSDs if the seller provided the information of how many writes were done to them and it wasn’t beyond ~10% of the expected life of the SSD.

The reason I wouldn’t by refurbished is because there isn’t really anything legitimate a seller can do to refurb them; I have seen less scrupulous sellers go into the registers that keep track of how many writes the drives have seen and zero them out to make it appear the drives have not been used as part of the “refurb process”.

I wouldn’t put “consumer” SSDs in, they are made to a inferior standard compared to enterprise SSDs. Consumer SSDs typically have poor garbage collection compared to enterprise SSDs and will let NAND cells decay leading to poor read performance after a year or so.

[oolmfoo]

Personally, I would not use refurbished SSD in working environment. You need to consider the warrantly issue for those drives.

And even the SSDs are perfectly fine, when there’s server problem, you are likely to be blamed.

[M_Chang]

Thanks Twin_Savage,

I guess I just wanted reaffirmation. Sounds best to eat the cost and get the same ones.

Thanks for your help and happy holidays!

[M_Chang]

Hi oolmfoo,

Thanks! The Asian in me wanted the deal but it seems like it’s still a bad idea overall.

Hope you have a great holiday!