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expired Posted by johndoeTX • Dec 14, 2023
expired Posted by johndoeTX • Dec 14, 2023

New 18TB WD Ultrastar $260 (Not Refurbished)

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Under $15/TB. from serverpartdeals, Condition: NEW.

Looking at previous SD posts, this is the lowest price on new 18TB WD Ultrastars.

https://serverpartdeals.com/produ...hard-drive
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Under $15/TB. from serverpartdeals, Condition: NEW.

Looking at previous SD posts, this is the lowest price on new 18TB WD Ultrastars.

https://serverpartdeals.com/produ...hard-drive

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OregonDealz
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Refurb, guess not.
Last edited by OregonDealz December 15, 2023 at 12:37 PM.
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v0rtex99
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Quote from OregonDealz :
Refurb
Actually, they say "Condition: New" on the product page. It appears the refurb are sold out.
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Yep, it says they're new. I ordered 5 for a home server build, but I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing something about these drives. I've used WD Reds before, never heard of Ultrastar prior to this. I have had good experiences with WD, so I went for it. Would love to hear if anybody has first hand experience with WD Ultrastars...
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SUBHEREO-FYI
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No way!
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Quote from OregonDealz :
Refurb

u blind?
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Quote from flynreelow :
u blind?

By the URL yes.
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Quote from johndoeTX :
Yep, it says they're new. I ordered 5 for a home server build, but I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing something about these drives. I've used WD Reds before, never heard of Ultrastar prior to this. I have had good experiences with WD, so I went for it. Would love to hear if anybody has first hand experience with WD Ultrastars...
HGST, if you don't know, was the crown jewel for reliable hard drive disks. These WD Ultrastars are made in the same factory that HGST used to make them in (unless something has changed in the last few years). This is because WD acqured HGST some years ago.

From what I've been able to discern, these Ultrastars and the WD Golds are made in the HGST factories and maintain the high standard for reliability. I can speak anecdotally to the quality of HGST's drives, as the only reason I've replaced them is because they last so long that they become obsolete. My 5 TB HGST Deskstar drive has been sitting in a computer by a subwoofer getting blasted by vibration and used hard since 2016.

Ordered one. I assume that these are new OEM drives, since it looks like Serverpartsdeals is doing the warranty. I've heard that resold OEM drives don't usually carry the manufacturer warranty. If it's new then I'm going to trust that any failures will present with the three year warranty period.
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johndoeTX
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Thank you for this reply, helpful info! 🙏
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Ezzzzzzz
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Oem model. Not recommended.
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Quote from Ezzzzzzz :
This model is prone to fail.
Do you have a link to data that shows this is an unreliable model prone to fail?
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d1sdeal
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Quote from Azzmo :
any failures will present with the three year warranty period.
you want any failures to present within the burn-in. full read-write. takes about 5 days for 10TB IIRC
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Azzmo
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Quote from Ezzzzzzz :
This model is prone to fail.
The Ultrastars used by Backblaze (14 and 16 TB) are tremendously reliable. Furthermore, I've been researching 18 TB HC550s to see what you might be referring to and have used 20 minutes to find no results. What have you heard about this?
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The 5 of these I purchased have all been delivered. They are extremely well packed. They came double boxed (inner box encased in bubble wrap, and inside that inner box the drives are encased in precut foam).

Question for the experts. What is the best way to test the drives?

They are going in a new build, Unraid (which I've never used before) will be the OS. The case is being delivered today. I hope to get the Server put together today. After I install Unraid what would be the recommended path to test these?

Alternatively, I could install the drives for testing on my old Windows server and if anyone thinks there is a better path for testing them if I go that route.

For my Windows server I built 10 years ago, I guess I just got lucky.... I never tested the drives. Had 4 WD Reds ( before there were such a thing as Red Plus and Red Pro) and 5 seagate nas HDDs. All 9 still working great to this day.

But it does seem smart to test, so I'd like to test them if you guys can suggest the fastest/smartest way people are doing it these days on Windows or Unraid. Thanks in advance.

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Duplicate/delete.
Last edited by JollyName7499 December 18, 2023 at 12:51 AM.

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