I found CHEAP hard drives on eBay!

Get $25 off all pairs of Vessi Footwear with offer code LinusTechTips at Save 10% and Free Worldwide Shipping at Ridge Wallet by using offer code LINUS at We’ve said more than once to never buy a used hard drive. But file sizes are increasing across the board, so could it actually make more sense to turn to the used market – like ebay or craigslist - for more storage capacity…even if the hard drives were used for crypto mining? Discuss on the forum: Buy a new Seagate Exos: Buy a new WD Blue: Buy a used hard drive on eBay: Buy a used Seagate Exos: Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: ► SUPPORT US ON FLOATPLANE: ► AFFILIATES, SPONSORS & REFERRALS: ► PODCAST GEAR: FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @linustech Twitch: MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: iTunes Download Link: Artist Link: Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: Listen on Spotify: Artist Link: Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 2:02 Hard drive mining 2:54 What we got 4:13 Shipping and buyer protection 5:10 SMART data 6:27 Did we get mined drives? 8:34 Let's use them for something! 9:50 A darn good deal 10:36 Aww shucks 11:34 Is it worth? 12:47 Outro