I’ve had a hard drive throw a fault on my truenas zfs pool, so probably need to buy a replacement. I know about serverpartdeals, but seem to recall another fairly cheap refurb hard drive seller when I bought these 4 years ago. I just don’t remember the name. What retailers are you using for hard drives these days if you have a failure?

In the US btw.

I’ll also try just reseating cables in a bit once the scrub finishes. (just in case that’s all it is)

ETA: the other retailer is goharddrive.com. I’m still interested to hear other suggestions if anyone has them.

Edit2: luckily reseating power and sata cables appear to have fixed it for now. the drive is resilvering, so hopefully I’m good. Thanks everyone for the recommendations, as I know one will fail at some point.

  • wr2623@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve bought about 16 drives from goharddrive (through eBay). Most of them 5+ years ago without any failures. So I can’t say how well they honor their warranty, but they have been around for some time so that is probably a good sign.

    If you are running your power supply near its limit I have seen that cause drive drops as well. If you continue to see drives drop that seem to be functional and cables/HBA don’t seem to be the cause, you might want to swap/upgrade power supplies if you can.