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Refurbished: WP Arsenal 12TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 3.5" DAS HDD- $149.99 [$12.5/TB]

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Enterprise drive for $12.50/TB. Great value IMO
Free shipping. 2 year warranty. No sales tax

Condition: Refurbished
12TB refurbished hard drive designed for direct-attached-storage (DAS) systems.
Water Panther Arsenal drives deliver consistent and responsive transfers.
Optimized for heavy workloads—3x that of NAS drives.
Drop-in ready for mainstream JBOD, disk shelf, and multi-bay RAID arrays.
Connect directly and utilize low latency hardware for upmost performance.

https://waterpanther.com/collecti...das-refurb

You can also order through Amazon, but you will be charged sales tax.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K3SXQ5T?tag=camelhomealerts-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&language=en_US [waterpanther.com]
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foxblur
05-13-2022 at 05:48 PM.
05-13-2022 at 05:48 PM.
I've never heard of this brand. Do they just rebrand?
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orangepi
05-13-2022 at 06:27 PM.

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05-13-2022 at 06:27 PM.
Quote from foxblur :
I've never heard of this brand. Do they just rebrand?

They white label from the 3 major manufacturers (Seagate, WD, Toshiba). However the issue to me is that there's no way to know how old the drive you're getting is. The drives have the SMART stats wiped by the mfr, so no way to tell if these are lightly used or have 20k hours on them.
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touche112
05-13-2022 at 08:41 PM.
05-13-2022 at 08:41 PM.
Quote from orangepi :
They white label from the 3 major manufacturers (Seagate, WD, Toshiba). However the issue to me is that there's no way to know how old the drive you're getting is. The drives have the SMART stats wiped by the mfr, so no way to tell if these are lightly used or have 20k hours on them.
that's a big ol' yikes from me, dawg
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CoreyH8836
05-14-2022 at 02:15 AM.
05-14-2022 at 02:15 AM.
Quote from touche112 :
that's a big ol' yikes from me, dawg

At least these have two year warranties, Seagate only has one on theirs and the serial on the drive is invalidated. I can save $60+ on these and get a two year warranty. Hopefully these will hold me over until the 20tb trickle down.
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MoMoney84
05-15-2022 at 06:11 AM.
05-15-2022 at 06:11 AM.
Great deal for these drives, I wouldn't use these in a production workstation or a day to day (without having back solution in place) especially not knowing the hours on these drives. But as others have stated, there is a 2 year warranty on them, so that helps. I see these beneficial to those with homelabs with enterprise grade servers, (with VM clusters, RAID, SAN, etc) Again I would be cautious if using this in a day to day with data that you do not want to lose, so make sure you have a good back up solution in place.

If don't have much to lose, or would not care, and you need the space, these are a good deal on a enterprise grade hard drive that were designed to run 24/7.


Possible home use:

Plex server

Home IT labs

Security systems

Photo/document repository etc

AGAIN, if you plan to use these for data that is important, or cannot be lost, look at new, or find a cloud-based solution that has built in redundancy and high availability (HA), with constant uptime.
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ajyello
05-18-2022 at 06:48 PM.
05-18-2022 at 06:48 PM.
Read the reviews and bought one to try. Needed it to back up a another dying drive. Shipping was fast, packaging was good, but the drive inside was DOA. Not a good intro to their company if I am dealing with RMA on the first drive I ordered. Needless to say, I'd avoid them in the future.

Now I have the headache of trying to reclaim my $150 and still no drive.
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InstanceNoodle
05-21-2022 at 02:55 PM.
05-21-2022 at 02:55 PM.
A few people on serve the home say that the serial number are blank on these drive and unraid have difficulty in accessing more than 1 drives due to this. Can any one let me know if there is a serial number in smart?

Saving 50 per drive sounds nice. But it is crazy if the drive has no serial number on the smart read out.
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