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Based on all reviews till date, I believe the recertified HDDs from ServerPartDeals are pretty good. Any suggestions?
Got the 14TB deal. Bought 4 of them. Arrived very well packaged. I ran bad blocks and smart tests on them. No errors so they're going into my server. Shipping was very fast. No complaints here.
They seem decent but I just can never figure out why these deals keep getting reposted endlessly. Something is afoot.
A drive could get returned for a bad pcb. I know I had a drive that just wouldn't get recognized in windows straight out of the box. Swap it out the drive is perfect again.
Could also be something like great value Salt. It's Morton's with a different label.
Could also be cheaper to keep making them and to sell them at Cost and call them recertified than to shit down production.
Could be canceled contracts with companies that went under or scaled back upgrade plans.
Could be they have a shit ton of parts to use before increasing density to the next gen.
I think you're right in the idea that these aren't failed drives that were repaired, but I don't think it's something bad.
Who knows it could even be the same "upgrade your Apple every year on us deal" but for data centers
They seem decent but I just can never figure out why these deals keep getting reposted endlessly. Something is afoot.
I found this deal when I was browsing through the ServerPartDeals website after following through on a 14tb SlickDeals link.
I wanted to check if these 18tb ones will be good enough for use in a backup NAS and had posted the a similar comment on the comments pages for the 14tb deal.
Thought of creating a new deal post as the previous one was for 14tb drives and already had 13 pages of comments.
I found this deal when I was browsing through the ServerPartDeals website after following through on a 14tb SlickDeals link.
I wanted to check if these 18tb ones will be good enough for use in a backup NAS and had posted the a similar comment on the comments pages for the 14tb deal.
Thought of creating a new deal post as the previous one was for 14tb drives and already had 13 pages of comments.
I'm using several of these drives..various sizes in a truenas....working without an issue. Debating grabbing 2 of these 18tb ones. The previous were seagates.
Well amazon is going to charge sales tax...for 4 drives it was around $35 estimated taxes so it's gonna bring it up to around $119....for $125 serverpartsdeal has some 14tb drives with the warranty being about a year longer...I'd be prone to take that method...the one's you pointed to are "amazon renewed" which can mean almost anything....the serverpartdeals ones have a history of being reliable amongst slickdealers who purchased them.
On my last purchase I paid no taxes. Varies by state.
You are correct..they confused me by throwing up an "estimated taxes" on the checkout process early..getting to the end did show no tax so everyone except people in Florida are safe.
Just ordered 3 of the these and got no taxes charged for a Texas delivery address !!!
Any suggestions on what tests should I run on the drives when I receive them ?
Just ordered 3 of the these and got no taxes charged for a Texas delivery address !!!
Any suggestions on what tests should I run on the drives when I receive them ?
I second this question. What are the best free test tools to run on hard drives? Also if free sux, what are the best paid ones, because a small price is still worth peace of mind.
Do you need to run different tools on SSD or m2 style drives?
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Could also be something like great value Salt. It's Morton's with a different label.
Could also be cheaper to keep making them and to sell them at Cost and call them recertified than to shit down production.
Could be canceled contracts with companies that went under or scaled back upgrade plans.
Could be they have a shit ton of parts to use before increasing density to the next gen.
I think you're right in the idea that these aren't failed drives that were repaired, but I don't think it's something bad.
Who knows it could even be the same "upgrade your Apple every year on us deal" but for data centers
MaxDigitalData (MD14000GSA25672) 14TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive - 3 Years Warranty (Renewed) $109.99
https://www.amazon.com/MaxDigital...r_
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I wanted to check if these 18tb ones will be good enough for use in a backup NAS and had posted the a similar comment on the comments pages for the 14tb deal.
Thought of creating a new deal post as the previous one was for 14tb drives and already had 13 pages of comments.
I wanted to check if these 18tb ones will be good enough for use in a backup NAS and had posted the a similar comment on the comments pages for the 14tb deal.
Thought of creating a new deal post as the previous one was for 14tb drives and already had 13 pages of comments.
I'm using several of these drives..various sizes in a truenas....working without an issue. Debating grabbing 2 of these 18tb ones. The previous were seagates.
MaxDigitalData (MD14000GSA25672) 14TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive - 3 Years Warranty (Renewed) $109.99
https://www.amazon.com/MaxDigital...r_
Well amazon is going to charge sales tax...for 4 drives it was around $35 estimated taxes so it's gonna bring it up to around $119....for $125 serverpartsdeal has some 14tb drives with the warranty being about a year longer...I'd be prone to take that method...the one's you pointed to are "amazon renewed" which can mean almost anything....the serverpartdeals ones have a history of being reliable amongst slickdealers who purchased them.
You are correct..they confused me by throwing up an "estimated taxes" on the checkout process early..getting to the end did show no tax so everyone except people in Florida are safe.
Any suggestions on what tests should I run on the drives when I receive them ?
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Any suggestions on what tests should I run on the drives when I receive them ?
Do you need to run different tools on SSD or m2 style drives?
Finally can it check MAC format drives?