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

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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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Manufacturer Recertified

20 TB Enterprise Exos hard drive

sold by and Warranty by serverpartdeals
((Warranty 2 Years from SPD not seagate))

There are two models for the price

x22 series [serverpartdeals.com]
x20 series [serverpartdeals.com]

Seagate data sheet:
x20 pdf [seagate.com] Cache 256mb
x22 pdf [seagate.com] Cache 512mb
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X20 has 256MB cache and X22 has 512MB cache.
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
without model number, start of usage time, length of usage, type of usage, your story has no usable meaning.

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Rosc
09-22-2023 at 02:50 PM.
09-22-2023 at 02:50 PM.
Quote from Binar :
OP is trying too hard
All I know , 6 months ago SDers would torch anyone that mentioned Seagate..Suddenly Seagate is the thing to have.
I'm not buying the whole data center, used HDD, that will last you years to come. This drives are used and abused. Corporate America aint going to waste resources. Heck lots of entrprise systems are still on Windows 7 because nobody wants to invest in stuff that works and suddenly data centers are replacing all the good HDD with other good HDD. 4D CHESS SD style. Seagate has bad reputation ..friends dont let friends buy Seagate
OP dont quote me..there's nothing to convince me to buy this garbage $10 per TB or not

There are costs you have to consider in the datacenter other than just the price of the drive. You have power, floorspace, etc. That all scale massively when you're talking thousands of drives. So while it may seem like a stupid waste to dump a bunch of perfectly good 20gb drives, it might have made long term sense by saving hundreds of thousands in rent or buildout
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lastwraith
09-22-2023 at 04:32 PM.
09-22-2023 at 04:32 PM.
Quote from awdrifter :
These are helium drives, once the seal fail they'll fail. I wouldn't trust buying a 5 year old refurb drive not to fail soon due to the helium seal.
Every drive fails, that's why you either backup your data or you don't care about it.
Buy on price and what fits your situation (noise/speed/etc). You don't like it.... move along.
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jgmeinhardt
09-24-2023 at 07:37 AM.
09-24-2023 at 07:37 AM.
I found a nice thread on reddit regarding ServerPartsDeals and refurbished hard drives. These comments are from people who have actually bought and used refurbished drives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...partdeals/
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NEW0
09-24-2023 at 10:44 AM.
09-24-2023 at 10:44 AM.
How much of a speed difference would I see if I used some kind of enclosure for this to USB 2.0 instead of putting it in my computer?

Also, I see that MSRP for these are at like $299.99 or something on Amazon. Is it worth trying to pick these up for near $100 off? I've heard mixed things about Seagate over the years, so I don't know how much more help it'd be to get it "new" from Amazon, but if I remember right, they're not an all-bad company... they had some pretty bad lines of drives, but again, if I remember right, Backblaze has some of their drives as a recommendation for reliability...
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LastButNotLeast
09-24-2023 at 01:56 PM.
09-24-2023 at 01:56 PM.
Decided I didn't need 20TB, so got this 14TB X18 for $128 instead.
https://serverpartdeals.com/colle...hard-drive
Thanks for the reviews and all the (mostly) useful info.
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esy1219
09-24-2023 at 04:08 PM.
09-24-2023 at 04:08 PM.
Only speaking from personal use. I've used all brands (Toshiba, WD, Seagate, IBM (yea IBM lol)etc) and the ONLY ones to have failed on me were the Seagate. No this was not 20+ years ago. It was actually in the last couple of years. The drive was only holding random media files (movies,tv shows etc) and periodically I would use them to watch old shows. For some reason, it just died (clicking noises). The other HDD (WD and Toshiba) are still running just fine even though they are older than the Seagate.

So just as people posted, back up is critical for data but seems stupid to save a few bucks at the start to end up paying more to get a replacement.

The ones I had were the Barracuda and Ironwolf. mabye the exos are better, not sure. But anyone I come across, I let them know that Seagate is riskier than other drives. Could be just my luck but if ONLY seagates have failed on me, it's hard to defend it.
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MWink
09-24-2023 at 08:22 PM.

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank MWink

09-24-2023 at 08:22 PM.
Quote from NEW0 :
How much of a speed difference would I see if I used some kind of enclosure for this to USB 2.0 instead of putting it in my computer?
USB 2.0 will seriously hold it back. It would top out around 50MB/s. This drive is capable of up to about 275MB/s. However, USB 3.0 would be fine.
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BerMM2
09-25-2023 at 01:06 AM.
09-25-2023 at 01:06 AM.
Quote from sparrow540 :
If these drives are respectable, why are they refurbished? What could go wrong that they can fix it and resell it?
Its often cheaper for big customers to order all their servers/workstations with the same configuration and then customize them themselves resulting in surplus parts like these. I know SMART data can be manipulated, but I've had refurbished drives report near zero hours and the manufacturer (based on serial number) state the warranty started a couple months prior.
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gearmesh
09-25-2023 at 12:37 PM.
09-25-2023 at 12:37 PM.
This is my first time taking advantage of these drives. Everyone seems pretty happy with them.
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eversavage
09-25-2023 at 12:51 PM.
09-25-2023 at 12:51 PM.
Quote from jgmeinhardt :
I found a nice thread on reddit regarding ServerPartsDeals and refurbished hard drives. These comments are from people who have actually bought and used refurbished drives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...partdeals/

I went through a lot of research prior to buying replacement for my 10tb drives..
Came to the same conclusion that seagate worth the $ from SpD.
Nay sayers are reluctant but they can go ahead and spend their money elsewhere...
SD is a place we post deals.. and some deals aren't for everyone..
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SmartSnail793
09-26-2023 at 07:21 PM.
09-26-2023 at 07:21 PM.
This is perfect for Synology!
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