Yes and no. This is where vendors reputation matters. Temu shite — no. (Don’t buy anything on temu in the first place, but this is debate for another forum).
But e.g. GHD’D MDD brand, that is some sort of refurbished mystery meat - any day. I use them indiscriminately. For everything, not just storj, obviously. Their customer server is amazing. I did use their warranty exactly once too — disk developed few bad sectors after 4 years. I could have kept it, but I wanted to check how it works.
I asked them to send me a disk before I sent the bad one back, offered to give them payment method to charge. They suggested to buy a replacement, and sent me prepaid (!) return label for the bad disk. And as soon as they received it — issued refund promptly. They could not refund the by order — it was too long ago — so they sent cash via PayPal. Zero friction.
As I said, disks are commodities. Buy whatever. They all fail in the end. Saving $3 on a $200 disk is better than pretending that some brands are better than others.
If you needs specific features — sure, filter by that. But most people just need a box with serial connector.
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