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14TB SATA 3.5" Internal refurb - $99 WD/HGST or Toshiba w/ 5 year warranty

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goHardDrive has 14TB SATA 3.5" Internal Certified Refurbished for $99 w/ 5 year warranty from vendor. WD/HGST and Toshiba brands.

WD/HGST
https://www.goharddrive.com/WD-Ul...496-cr.htm

Toshiba
https://www.goharddrive.com/Toshi...495-cr.htm
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> bubble2 672 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 03:30 PM.
Anyone ordered from this place before?
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03-30-2023 at 03:36 PM.
I just bought 3 drives. There are posts from previous deals recommending this vendor so I pulled the trigger on it, and also posted this deal.
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03-30-2023 at 03:38 PM.
I also purchased a pair of Toshiba drives.
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> bubble2 1,149 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 03:44 PM.
It says 5 year warranty, but who fulfills the warranty? If it isn't direct to the manufacturer, the warranty is probably worthless.
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> bubble2 2,869 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 03:49 PM.
How noise they are?
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> bubble2 1,024 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 03:54 PM.
I don't want to have mean-spirited slickdeal slugfest over which vendor is better than another, but I would like a constructive pro and con type discussion between goHardDrive and ServerPartDeals.

Is this 99 dollar 14TB model Manufacture recert or just regular refurb? I see this model has 5 year warranty.

I like ServerpartDeal website because it does list very plainly if product is Manufacture recert by WD, but I didn't see that when I just visited goHardDrive site.

Again, most of us just want to hear other SlickDeal users experience with both companies, and anything you think might help in buying from both these websites.

Is this WD 14 TB for 99 dollars a good deal from goHardDrive? Yes or No .... and why is it good or bad. Thanks
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> bubble2 10,220 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 03:58 PM.
used? no...
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> bubble2 25 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 04:01 PM.
Quote from kublai :
Anyone ordered from this place before?
I've purchased from their eBay store once and their Amazon storefront once as well. No issues buying from either place.

Quote from SimMike777 :
It says 5 year warranty, but who fulfills the warranty? If it isn't direct to the manufacturer, the warranty is probably worthless.
I've needed warranty replacements both times I've purchased from them. Sectors were going bad on the drives. Both times Goharddrive handled replacements with no issues. I even managed to sweet talk advance replacement on two drives that were failing. In both cases I was on the hook for shipping the drives to California. I would not count on them shipping you new used drives before you sent back your defective ones.

This leads to my general opinion on the company: Prices are very good in some cases but the drives are used and likely sooner rather than later they will fail and will need to be replaced with new used drives from them. In my case I had redundant backups and RAID arrays, but depending on your situation you might want to pay for new drives that'll last longer. Had they denied my request for advance replacement it would have been a bigger pain since I would have lost my data on a RAID 5 array.
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> bubble2 71 Posts
03-30-2023 at 04:14 PM.
beware - lots of older bad reviews on resellerratings. many of them state they sent hard drives in an envelope and dont want to refund

ymmv
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> bubble2 2,694 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 04:28 PM.
Note: WD Ultrastar WUH721414ALE600 has the power-disable feature. The second to last character being a 0 means that it will not work out of the box on many systems (and in many external docks). Anything without control of the power disable pin (pin 3), will need to either have an adapter power cable used, the cable cut, or the pin's contact blocked with something like glue or tape. Without this modification, the drive will stay powered off.
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> bubble2 1,669 Posts
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03-30-2023 at 04:28 PM.
I mean. This is a crap shoot. If you just want to back stuff up offline and keep in cold storage, I guess this is good since you'd only need it to function for short periods.
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