[fpp]

I'll see from your reports that you're migrating 1000s of 2TB drives to 8TB drives - what is actually happening to your old 2TB drives?

Guess you are not throwing those away so what are you doing with them.

[brianwski]

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. We securely wipe the drives, then we sell them to a "used hard drive reseller".

[kikoreis]

Does "secure wipe" mean ATA SE, i.e. hdparm --security-erase, or --security-erase-enhanced?

[SteveNuts]

I know it's a lot easier to wholesale resell them, but it'd be so awesome if you could dedicate a portion to be sold to the homelabbers among us.

[theandrewbailey]

They were reusing their 1TB drives to test new pods with. But I think they would only need a hundred or so for that, unless they die faster in that workload.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-201...