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About ReDrive Refurbished
We refurbish hard drives to a standard whereby we guarantee for a least a period of one year, your drive will be defect-free and could also go on to last for many years
More Sustainable
The ever-growing demand for higher storage capacity within the "datasphere" sees countless hard drives discarded annually, despite years of useful life left being left within them.
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Here at ReDrive, we purchase, test and restore these drives and then sell them to the aftermarket, giving cheaper and more sustainable options to our customers.
No Compromise
We know our customers expect a good return on their investment, but they aren't always in a position to purchase brand new drive, or there may be a bespoke requirement.
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We take a great deal of pride in our refurbished hard drives, and we put each individual disk through a gold standard, state-of-the-art engineering diagnostics process, which it must pass before being considered for resale.
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We inspect not only the physical aspects of the drive, but also the performance and health of the hard drive internal components.
Our Approach
Gold Standard Quality
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Our examination processes include several diagnostic tests that assess performance abilities and “well-being” of each hard drive. These include random read and write tests, random butterfly testing, and determining the presence of any growing defects.
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Once the drive successfully passes the entire process, meeting our rigorous standards, we then thoroughly clean it and wrap it in new ESD compliant packaging.
We do our very best to ensure that the grade of the hard drive we supply is up to expected standards, and that it is ready to protect your valuable data before we allow it to make its way to your doorstep. To give you extra confidence, we'll supply a health report with your hard drive, and also give you a ReDrive warranty of one year.
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Even Drives Get A Health Report
We supply a health report with every refurbished hard drive we ship. That way, you can be assured we've done what we said we would. If you ever have questions about your health report, we'd be happy to answer them - just drop us a message.
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Our 15 point process includes the following:
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Visual Drive Inspection
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Check the label
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Verify the drive capacity and serial number
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Check the PCB and chassis
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Check the connectors and clean the contacts
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Check for external physical damage
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Testing Phase
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Delete existing partition tables
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Secure-wipe the drive
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Block Level Sequential Write Test
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Block Level Sequential Read Test
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Random Read and Write Tests. Depending on the size of the disk we run this test from 300 to 1440 minutes
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60 Minute Random Butterfly Test
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Check for the presence of grown defects, evaluate and reject as necessary
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S.M.A.R.T Review
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Reallocated Sectors
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Spin Retry count
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G-Sense Error Rate
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Current Pending Sector Count
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Un-correctable Sector Count
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Ultra DMA CRC Error Count
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Load/Unload Retry Count
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Final Compliance Checks and Preparation For Resale​
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Check the drive's power on hours
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Remove all non-factory stickers where we can, providing this does not damage any manufacturer labelling
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Clean the drive with a solvent to remove all dirt and markings from the drive
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Run and print the necessary health reports
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Package the drive in an antistatic bag for shipping, with moisture-absorbent technology