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20TB Seagate Exos X20 or X22 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Recertified)

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$210

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Server Part Deals has select 20TB Seagate Exos Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Hard Drives (X20 or X22 Manufacturer Recertified Units) on sale for $209.99. Shipping is free (via UPS 2nd Day Air shipping)

Thanks to Community Member eversavage for sharing this deal.

Available options: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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  • About this Store:
    • Server Part Deals has a Satisfaction Guarantee: Return for refund within 30 days of package reception date.
    • Shipping note from vendor: 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.
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer is priced $10 lower than previous front page deal from August 2023, in addition to offering the X22 model for sale with the upgrade cache size.
    • The spec sheets for each drive can be found for X20 and X22.
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional details and community discussion.

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Server Part Deals has select 20TB Seagate Exos Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Hard Drives (X20 or X22 Manufacturer Recertified Units) on sale for $209.99. Shipping is free (via UPS 2nd Day Air shipping)

Thanks to Community Member eversavage for sharing this deal.

Available options: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 Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this Store:
    • Server Part Deals has a Satisfaction Guarantee: Return for refund within 30 days of package reception date.
    • Shipping note from vendor: 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.
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer is priced $10 lower than previous front page deal from August 2023, in addition to offering the X22 model for sale with the upgrade cache size.
    • The spec sheets for each drive can be found for X20 and X22.
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional details and community discussion.

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kingbob2
X20 has 256MB cache and X22 has 512MB cache.
eversavage
Great packaging,
Drives get stamp/marked Recertified , also gets a new label to what appeared to be from Seagate .
SMART data gets zero out..

They are louder than traditional drives.. worth the buy.. $10.50/ TB

Satisfaction Guarantee: Return for refund within 30 days of package reception date.

SO test the drive as soon as you get it..

I used the Seagate software that creates a bootable VM (tinycore) with the SeaTools GUI : Link
hiroo916
without model number, start of usage time, length of usage, type of usage, your story has no usable meaning.

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hbk72777
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Quote from dirtbag88 :
You clearly don't know what you are talking about. None of us care that the 1tb Seagate drive you loaded with pron in 2005 failed in 2018.

The problem is all of the people who bought one in 2022 who already had to toss it in 2023
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Fezmid
Sep 20, 2023
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I've replaced a couple of 8TB Seagate drives from years ago that had 44000+ hours on them with these X20 drives. It's only been a couple of weeks, but so far, so good.
Sep 20, 2023
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jgmeinhardt
Sep 20, 2023
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I recently bought a refurbed Seagate 18TB from SPD. I am probably going to buy one of the 20TB drives. I am not using these drives for 'mission critical' applications. I backup all my data twice, so I am comfortable using one of these drives as a 2nd backup. I also use them in my NAS for music and video files that are already backed up. I could also see using these in a RAID 5 or 6 with redundancy.

I want to mention that SPD packages the hard drives very well. Something I can't say about a lot of the other vendors out there.
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Quote from hbk72777 :
The problem is all of the people who bought one in 2022 who already had to toss it in 2023
And how many are there that had that issue? The whole Seagate has bad reliability thing is outdated from over a decade ago.

These refurb generally have had their control boards replaced, the platters in the sealed case and motor aren't touched and are exactly the same as a brand new one. These are enterprise HDDs that companies are buying and using by the thousands. For the price, configure an array that can handle two simultaneous drive failures and you'll be fine.

Trusting a single drive of this size as the only copy of your data from any manufacturer is just asking for data loss.
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boriszima
Sep 20, 2023
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Drive realibility can be read her. When using in RAID, its no big deal overall.
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-s...-test-data

there are no 20TB drives here, but still worth reading
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...r-q2-2023/
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descentman
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Quote from megablank :
Refurb market just has nothing to do with black friday though.
they might give a 10% off discount during BF, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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kcobra
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Seagate 12tb refurb for ~$108 also from this place. I've had one running for over a year in my unRAID box. No issues. Other sizes also available.
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sparrow540
Sep 21, 2023
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If these drives are respectable, why are they refurbished? What could go wrong that they can fix it and resell it?
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Fezmid
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Quote from sparrow540 :
If these drives are respectable, why are they refurbished? What could go wrong that they can fix it and resell it?
THEY aren't fixing them - Seagate is as it's manufacturer. It's probably things like replacing the electronics because I don't think they can do anything with the platters themselves that would make it worth reselling.

The Reddit DataHoarders subreddit vouches for them, I've been using a couple of drives for a month or two, and I'm running SHR2 (kind of like RAID-6), so even if I have failure or two and get it replaced under warranty, no big deal. I did order them individually to try getting different lots, just in case. (slowly replacing all 5 drives)

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...partdeals/
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Quote from necrodiety :
Gooood luck with a brand new Seagate drive.... Refurb? Hope you have a backup plan.
Dudes stuck in 2011 with his assumption of Seagate 3th drives lol
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