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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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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
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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
Buy on price and what fits your situation (noise/speed/etc). You don't like it.... move along.
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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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Thanks for the reviews and all the (mostly) useful info.
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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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..