OK, OK, hang on a second. We know that there are some among you who turn their noses up at the ‘furbs. “Refurb!?” they say. “No, thank you!” And while we appreciate that their parents at least taught them to say no thank you instead of “poop, no” or something, we still think they might be missing out sometimes because of that knee-jerk reaction of theirs.

Take today’s 750-gig hard drive, for example. Who can’t use another 750 gigs? And before you say “refurbz suXX0r,” take a look: It’s “recertified.” That’s “refurbished by the manufacturer” to you. It’s uberrefurbed. These drives’ve met Seagate’s own standards of quality control—not those of some second-rate, no-name, fly-by-night “company” run out of some schmuck’s basement. So what else would you want?

Us, we’re convinced. But say you aren’t. Say you’re the kind of soulless skeptic who can’t be convinced there’s anything good in the cold, cruel universe. So use this drive to back up your music or something. Then you only need it to fire up twice: Once when you load the files onto it, and once when you take it out of its fireproof safe inside your extra-large safe-deposit box at the bank to recover the files.

Boy, you really do have serious trust issues, don’t you?

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