Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use the disks for his own server. Was therefore wondering if you peeps have ever done this and if there any downsides to it at all?

  • Petter1
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    5 months ago

    And maybe some juicy data to recover 😏 honestly, which enterprise sells its old drives? That is calling for a data leak, isn’t it?

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      5 months ago

      The ones that aren’t forced to care by regulators. So basically anyone that isn’t finance or defense.

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      5 months ago

      Many sells, some just wipe them, some just contains encrypted data. If you happy with just used drive eBay is full of surprises.