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Seagate Exos X16 ST14000NM001G 14TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 512e/4Kn 256MB 3.5" FastFormat Manufacturer Recertified HDD
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Manufacturer Recertified DrivesShop for drives that are certified once again by the manufacturer to work like new. Factory ReCertified drives are cost-effective alternatives compared to factory-sealed new counter parts. Additionally, unlike in mass production, the re-certification process involves closer attention to the overall operation of the hardware so that the re-certification will not have to happen a 2nd time. |
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Also, these drives have 2 Years of warranty through SeverPartDeals.com, no Seagate Warranty.
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2-year ServerPartDeals warranty, NOT Manufacturer warrantied.
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Good luck to everyone.
Seagate 14TB Exo16 Recert:
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CrystalDiskInfo: Seatools: Side by side comparison of brand new Exo16 14TB vs the Recert one, the only thing that can't be seen here is that the recert one on the metal chasis on the side has the words recertified laser etch into it. The only other thing that stands out to me is that the recert are made in china, the other one is from Thailand. The recert has two clear logos saying is a recert, one right below the Seagate brand and the other on the bottom near all the other logos saying Factory Recert Seagate. Also the certifications are kind of different between each others as if this recert was meant to a different market? Main difference are the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) logo and the UKCA one. Not an expert on this so anyone with more info about the logos please clarify. Quick google indicates that the UR one is for devices that are meant to be used inside another and not the final product themselves, ie the drive on the left came from an external drive and was shucked, thus the UR logo. The UKCA indicate that it is a product meant to be sold on the market in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
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The listing title then says FastFormat, not sure if that is referring to a feature of the drive or if that is the name of the Recertifiying company:
Update: FastFormat is a featue Segate drives have.
And then they define Manufacturer recertified as:
Talked to their customer service chat and they said they are recertified indeed by Seagate and that ServerPartDeals runs their own internal tests on top of it. That these drives are warrantied to have less than 50 power on hours.
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My personal "backup" consists of syncing my important data between my PC, laptop and an encrypted thumb drive, and taking the latter with me whenever I can. The one weakness here is that when I'm home, all three are in the same place, which is dangerous in case of fire and such. So really I need a 4th, offsite backup solution. I keep meaning to put it on the "cloud", but have reservations about security and reliability. Are the ones that Google, Microsoft and Norton give you for free considered to be both?
RAID helps you in this case... basically give you RPO=0 for mechinical failures.
so RAID + Backup go hand in hand to prevent data loss.
I haven't seen a comment on SD ever (to the best of my recollection) where someone said they've been burned by WD time-after-time and only trust Seagate because they buy lots of 'em and haven't experienced any (or very few) failures. But I've seen a significant number of comments like mine.
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This technology has too many compromises for consumer use with NVMe/SSDs being as cheap as it is.
As for longevity, I would expect spin-up/spin-down for idle power savings would have more of an effect on the lifespan than the rotational speed ever would, given this is an enterprise-level drive in modern day. And that spin-up/down effect would be minimal, well witihin the traditional failure curve.
It's when you get 10, 15, 25 of them spinning in a single chassis where the cumulative effect can be seen -- and at that point, go with the vendor recommendation.
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you should start doing RAID or put your important in a NAS with raid. ALL storage fail, you just have to RAID them so you can recover.
brand of the storage really don't matter, its just random lottery to WHEN it'll fail.
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