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

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Server Part Deals via eBay has 20TB Seagate Exos X22 3.5" 7200RPM Internal SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (Recertified) on sale for $196. 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/secĀ²): 12.5

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Server Part Deals via eBay [ebay.com] has the 20TB Seagate Exos X22 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise SATA Hard Drive ST20000NM004E (Manufacturer Recertified) for $196.00
Shipping is free. 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping
  • Manufacturer Recertified, no bad sectors
  • 20TB Capacity
  • Model ST20000NM004E
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • 7200RPM
  • 512MB Cache
  • 1-year warranty

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The X22 came out In 2022 so... I doubt it
Good deal, only thing I would note is that by purchasing through eBay it appears to only have a 1-year seller warranty vs 2-years if purchased directly from sellers website (priced slightly higher). Thanks OP!
Website doesn't charge tax for most states, eBay does. Usually why I buy from their website.

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wwml
01-26-2024 at 03:53 PM.
01-26-2024 at 03:53 PM.
[QUOTE=elefante72;168928762]A vast majority of drives that come back are from firmware and/or software errors. Nobody is cracking the drives open. All of them are usually used, but some are overstock from spares pools. On occasion there may be some external board or connector replacement but that is super rare. A vast majority undergo NO physical modifications.

As enterprise drives have 1.5-2m MTBF and high duty cycles getting one a few years old then putting it in a home server where the duty is typically low doesn't really kill their lifetime (they may last 5+ years). However you don't REALLY know how they have been used. There are a lot of Chia drives starting to show up now that Chia farming not making so much $$$ and those drives are hit hard.

So when they come back they do the normal electrical and bench testing, flash new firmware and test for OOS (out of spec). The OEM then resets the SMART data and sends it into the channel. That is manufacturer recertified. Then the manu typically offers a warranty directly with them. If the warranty is not with the OEM it doesn't matter what they say it is not manu recertified.

The second class is returns where a seller buys off the market and does the refub themselves or buys from a refurbisher. It may or may not be as rigorous as the manu and the warranty is offered by them (as in this case). Depending upon the drive they may or may not be able to reset the SMART data (some ent drives require manu keys to do that).

The third class is OOS. Out of Spec. These are drives that are marginal or fail certain conditions of the refurb process. They flash special firmware on these to "dial down" the performance and or address the spec issue. The seller will put a warranty on these. MDD is a perfect example of OOS drives offered by SPD. I like to buy these for capacity and they offer a 5 year warranty. They are also significantly cheaper than the other two. I rigorously test them first before putting into service


This is very informative. Thanks! What is the method you used to test the MDD drives rigorously?
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pcman2000
01-26-2024 at 04:11 PM.
01-26-2024 at 04:11 PM.
Quote from SiennaPlant9626 :
Raid are obsolete. Raid was created in a time of 100gb or less. Not designed for today data heavy society.
Quote from chrisngem :
I agree. Raid 0 to increase throughput went away with the introduction of SSDs. I know there's an argument with striping a pair of SSDs, but even those too are pretty high capacity (easily >100GB nowadays).

Appears focus now is redundancy - and here we get hardware/software hard drive pooling arguments.

Back to OP - I have 2x 20TB (X20s) and just added a 22TB (X22) as a three-way mirror from SPD for non-critical data (6k hrs & 500 hrs, respectively). Routine SMART tests and scrubs (TrueNAS) not a hiccup yet; but they're relatively young, so time will tell... Critical data is on a separate pool with a 321 backup plan.
Yes and no. For servers raid still is a nice peace of mind. Just built a server with Raid 1 PCIe 4 NVMe's and the read speeds blow PCIe gen 5 drives speeds out of the water. Raid 0 would be mind blowing but definitely not for server use.
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starcaptor
01-26-2024 at 04:20 PM.
01-26-2024 at 04:20 PM.

I'm running two of those exact 14tb drives. No issues and no errors after running diagnostics (I commented in that thread)

The customer service from goharddrive is next-level. I got two DOAs (what are the chances?!??) Instant exchange, no questions asked. And that's for five years.

They hit around 220 megs a second when used in a desktop when transferring large files.
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The_Doug
01-26-2024 at 04:37 PM.
01-26-2024 at 04:37 PM.
Nice to finally see some bigger drives than in 2015. There were about six years there when 8TB was $150.
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Ricard0123
01-26-2024 at 05:38 PM.
01-26-2024 at 05:38 PM.
Gimme 2 for $150 each and I'm in!
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ibuythingshere
01-27-2024 at 12:29 AM.
01-27-2024 at 12:29 AM.
Quote from turbodog :
Thanks OP, got four to expand my 4K anime server.
lemme have access to your plex server
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zankytanky
01-27-2024 at 12:33 AM.
01-27-2024 at 12:33 AM.
Quote from heiNey :
Are Seagate drives better than they used to be? I have like 20 dead Seagate drives over the past 25 years and only a couple dead WD, Hitachi, Toshiba. Haven't bought any drives in the past 3 years so I'm out of touch now and need to start buying again.

I have also had bad experiences with SeaGate.
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DraconianMeasures
01-27-2024 at 09:13 AM.
01-27-2024 at 09:13 AM.
Quote from turbodog :
Thanks OP, got four to expand my 4K anime server.

Is that a joke? I can't imagine 4k anime looks that much better than 1080.. it's not recording the detail of real life...
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Luigis3rdcousin
01-27-2024 at 12:54 PM.
01-27-2024 at 12:54 PM.
Litterally trying to replace a dying seagate as I'm writing thisā€¦.. I've never seen so many dying hard drives in my life being seagate than any other brand.
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01-27-2024 at 01:46 PM.
01-27-2024 at 01:46 PM.
Quote from DraconianMeasures :
Is that a joke? I can't imagine 4k anime looks that much better than 1080.. it's not recording the detail of real life...
I can't speak for 1080 vs 4K but SD vs HD makes a huge difference for animated content. The sharp edges of animation make it stand out. Live action video tends to just look softer.
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01-27-2024 at 03:18 PM.
01-27-2024 at 03:18 PM.
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Website doesn't charge tax for most states, eBay does. Usually why I buy from their website.
they are now charging taxes for TX.
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01-27-2024 at 03:58 PM.
01-27-2024 at 03:58 PM.
Quote from Galileo28 :
Those Manufacturer/Reseller Recertified = We've verified that this item has been inspected, tested, and cleaned by a qualified seller. Sounds really bogus too me.
Think of all these "seller refurbished" drives as used drives. There's really no way to refurbish a hard drive mechanically. The motor and bearing will wear and the helium seal will weaken, there's nothing they can do about it. But this model of hard drive is only out for 2 years, so at most you'll get a 2 years old drive. Which should still have 3 years of design life left.
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01-27-2024 at 10:34 PM.
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Is this good for surveillance?
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SmartSnail793
01-28-2024 at 05:24 AM.
01-28-2024 at 05:24 AM.
Quote from turbodog :
Thanks OP, got four to expand my 4K anime server.

There is literally not that many anime unlessā€¦ oh. So you are a man of culture.
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01-28-2024 at 05:35 AM.
01-28-2024 at 05:35 AM.
Quote from LuckyJinx :
Is this good for surveillance?

There is a surveillance line but above it is the server line. Imagine demands of ten cameras writing vs 100,000 people accessing data at any one timeā€¦
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