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20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Recertified)

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Server Parts Deals has 20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (Manufacturer Recertified, ST20000NM007D) on sale for $219.99. Shipping is free.

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About this Item:
  • 20TB Capacity
  • 7200 RPM Spindle Speed
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • Max. Sustained Transfer Rate OD (MB/s, MiB/s): 285/272
  • Random Read/Write 4K QD16 WCD (IOPS): 168/550
  • Rotation Vibration @ 20-1500 Hz (rad/sec²): 12.5
  • Condition - Manufacturer Recertified : 2 Year Limited Period Warranty

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    • Our drives ship in 225lb per sq inch pressure-rated boxes, specifically tested for impact. Inside the box you'll find suspension brackets, foam inserts, or air filled pockets that secure the drive in place and prevent any possible impact from movement in the shipping process. The drive itself is sealed in an anti-static bag that protects the drive from any electromagnetic interference.

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Server Parts Deals has 20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (Manufacturer Recertified, ST20000NM007D) on sale for $219.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member eversavage for sharing this deal.

About this Item:
  • 20TB Capacity
  • 7200 RPM Spindle Speed
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • Max. Sustained Transfer Rate OD (MB/s, MiB/s): 285/272
  • Random Read/Write 4K QD16 WCD (IOPS): 168/550
  • Rotation Vibration @ 20-1500 Hz (rad/sec²): 12.5
  • Condition - Manufacturer Recertified : 2 Year Limited Period Warranty

Editor's Notes

Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
  • About this Deal:
  • Shipping Notes:
    • Our drives ship in 225lb per sq inch pressure-rated boxes, specifically tested for impact. Inside the box you'll find suspension brackets, foam inserts, or air filled pockets that secure the drive in place and prevent any possible impact from movement in the shipping process. The drive itself is sealed in an anti-static bag that protects the drive from any electromagnetic interference.

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Caveat emptor when dealing with serverpartdeals' support -- I bought two 16TB Seagate Exos drives from SPD a few months ago that were never delivered. While the shipping agent (UPS) claimed to have delivered the item, they failed to

provide any visual proof of delivery such as a picture taken at the drop-off point
use the Amazon Hub locker system present in the building
deliver to *any* location within the building

When I reached out to SPD's customer support, the best they would offer was to reimburse 50% of the cost since that was all UPS would reimburse them. I found this wholly inadequate since I had not received any of the drives. Thankfully I had paid using Amazon Pay and was able to receive a full refund through Amazon's dispute resolution process.

After being rather underwhelmed by SPD's customer support for something as basic as shipping / logistics, I would be concerned about the return process for "warranty" repairs.
I recommend running the seagate tool via USB bootable.

download the free software and within it there is software that creates the bootable drive.

from the software you can run the smart test, long/short surface test and use it update the firmware.
As someone who managed 3 data centers covering about 40k sqft, I can tell you that the Seagate drives worked just fine in a 99.9% uptime server data center.

Now this was quite a while ago with the 8tb being the biggest units installed. We are talking thousands of drives in servers, JBODs, and network appliances. We lost drives but nothing that people are talking about here on these threads.

They were Enterprise series drives for sure.

Frankly I have had great luck with Seagate drives and still use them today.

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eversavage
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I recommend running the seagate tool via USB bootable.

download the free software and within it there is software that creates the bootable drive.

from the software you can run the smart test, long/short surface test and use it update the firmware.
Last edited by eversavage June 26, 2023 at 06:40 AM.
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JakFo
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Best deal I've seen for 20TB. They're great drives that I use for my plex NAS
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lollerskates
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Bought as a backup drive for my 20TB WD RED

Thanks OP!
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Mr.Beard
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I'm starting fresh building a NAS I'm yet to do any research on storage, I hope to to build a mid tower with at least 100TB. Seagate a good brand ?
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Quote from CTRFK8 :
200 is the sweet spot will wait

I was hoping for $194 but this is pretty darn close...

I know your a heavy user in the disk space..


on your Exos , Confused
Do you update the firmware to SN04 ?
Do you set the sector to 4kn ?
Are you concern over speed difference?
(I have one drive that is about 10 mb faster than the other drive.)
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Quote from Mr.Beard :
I'm starting fresh building a NAS I'm yet to do any research on storage, I hope to to build a mid tower with at least 100TB. Seagate a good brand ?
you have two choices Seagate or Western Digital

they are to honda and toyota of hard drives ......there are ppl that love or hate seagate just like honda and toyota.

when it comes to data its all about 3:2:1 backups
For me its about how much that digital data is going to cost me
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FashionPagan
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As a former computer builder, I hate seagates.
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Quote from FashionPagan :
As a former computer builder, I hate seagates.
As a human being, I hate Seagate landfill fodder.
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Caveat emptor when dealing with serverpartdeals' support -- I bought two 16TB Seagate Exos drives from SPD a few months ago that were never delivered. While the shipping agent (UPS) claimed to have delivered the item, they failed to
  1. provide any visual proof of delivery such as a picture taken at the drop-off point
  2. use the Amazon Hub locker system present in the building
  3. deliver to *any* location within the building
When I reached out to SPD's customer support, the best they would offer was to reimburse 50% of the cost since that was all UPS would reimburse them. I found this wholly inadequate since I had not received any of the drives. Thankfully I had paid using Amazon Pay and was able to receive a full refund through Amazon's dispute resolution process.

After being rather underwhelmed by SPD's customer support for something as basic as shipping / logistics, I would be concerned about the return process for "warranty" repairs.
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I need to build a NAS with 300TB. Read 99% of the time. Tolerance of 2 HDDs. What system recommendations do you guys have?
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VelocityRaptor
Jun 25, 2023
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In my experience as a long time tech ive had more seagate mechanical drive failures than anything except the old IBM deathstars. This is obviously anecdotal and i only have about 5 Exos model drives in machines i deal with so limited experience with those specifically.

This drive could be $100 and i still wouldnt use it. Once again just my opinion and experience.
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Quote from VelocityRaptor :
In my experience as a long time tech ive had more seagate mechanical drive failures than anything except the old IBM deathstars. This is obviously anecdotal and i only have about 5 Exos model drives in machines i deal with so limited experience with those specifically.

This drive could be $100 and i still wouldnt use it. Once again just my opinion and experience.
Man.. the IBM deathstars lol haven't heard them in a long time and boy they were fun..
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Does it come with a power cable which does PIN 3 mod?
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