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HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB SATA 3.5-Inch Hard Drive -(Amazon Renewed)@ Amazon $119.99
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HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch Data Center HDD - WUH721414ALE604 0F31152 (Amazon Renewed) $119.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08T3PBV57
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HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch Data Center HDD - WUH721414ALE604 0F31152 (Amazon Renewed) $119.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08T3PBV57
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That is better than refurbished, at least WD has looked at these. But it is shipped/sold by Tech on Tech. I wonder what type of warranty they offer past the 90 days provided by Amazon.
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That is better than refurbished, at least WD has looked at these. But it is shipped/sold by Tech on Tech. I wonder what type of warranty they offer past the 90 days provided by Amazon.
That is better than refurbished, at least WD has looked at these. But it is shipped/sold by Tech on Tech. I wonder what type of warranty they offer past the 90 days provided by Amazon.
I was apprehensive about buying a used drive, but it is an enterprise grade drive, and the people at Server Parts Deals do same day free shipping and all the drives have tested great and are running well. As long as you have backups these are great drives to put in a NAS. But even if you use new drives you still need backups as all drives fail at some point.
But there doesn't seem to be a 5 year or even 3 year warranty like many of the other used/recertified HDD's listed on Amazon.
The best deal I've found recently was a used/recertified 10TB Hitachi for $78.88 with a 5 year warranty, putting it at $7.88/TB. No other used HDD is near that price per TB. Even down to 3TB. 10TB seems to be the sweet spot right now if you're into the used drives.
I've bought several 8TB and 10TB because that I'm running with full duplication of files to account for any failures and all of them have passed a surface scan a few times now, no bad sectors. A couple of my drives have 8 years power on time, no errors, only 77 power cycles and most of those came from a bad boot SSD that just kept rebooting the server.
I trust these drives for my setup as I know my data is duplicated and my most important files are backed up on other drives as well. A drive that has run for 3 to 5 years already could be a gamble, but I look at it this way: they were removed while still working full time in a datacenter because the datacenter was upgrading or shutting down servers. Any drives that were going to fail right away failed on that power down/removal. The ones left are the hardy ones that are within that 2.5 million hours MTBF. With the 5 year warranty, I'm not worried about being out of pocket for these if one fails. So far, so good and I finally have enough TB to run a NAS with everything duplicated and to backup everything for hundreds of dollars less.
I'm not going to make these things a boot drive or have the only copy of important files on them.
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