If you don’t have the money for the most amount of terabytes there is but you can find it in your budget if you buy it pre-owned.
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Sellers usually balk at running a long test unfortunately. Sometimes they do it proactively and show you SMART data with a recent long test log already included but it’s very seldom.
Many sellers aren’t technically savvy and it’s the first time they hear about Hard Disk Sentinel, they give you pics of the computer monitor taken with their phone etc. I consider it a win if they can manage to show you the complete SMART attributes.