Recently got back into messing around with computers and have started the Plex server shenanigans. Honestly super impressed and it works great. The question goes to storage. I will more than likely need more as I rip more and more of my discs.
Is it worth buying new sata drives versus renewed? This isn’t precious memories or anything that can’t be redone. There are renewed Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB for $114. I know people mention warranties, but whenever anyone says “warranty” for hard drives all I can think of is the scene in TommyBoy about putting a label on a box of poop. So with that, 2 questions:
In general, is it worth paying extra for brand new drives?
In the instance of a server with nothing precious, would you just buy the renewed drives?
(Side note I plan on using StableBit Drivepool and Scanner, if that matters. Anyone with poor/good experience with that would love the chime ins).
Thanks for your time.