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expiredDesertGardener | Staff posted Jan 26, 2024 4:36 PM
14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished)
$110
$119
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goHardDrive via Newegg has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Internal Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE604, Refurbished) on sale for $109.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to staff member DesertGardener for finding this deal.
Product Features:
Thanks to staff member DesertGardener for finding this deal.
Product Features:
- Helium-filled hard drive
- 3.5-inch form factor
- HelioSeal process and 7StacTM design are keys to hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity
- TCOptimized design delivers on key elements of data center TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density
- SAS & SATA 6Gb/s models for configuration flexibility
Editor's Notes
Written by oceanlake- About this Deal:
- This price matches a recent Frontpage Deal.
- Priced at ~$7.86 per TB of storage space.
- About this Store:
- Refer to goHardDrive return policy (90 days)
- goHardDrive via Newegg has a 4.8 star rating based on over 8900 customer feedback.
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goHardDrive via Newegg has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Internal Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE604, Refurbished) on sale for $109.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to staff member DesertGardener for finding this deal.
Product Features:
Thanks to staff member DesertGardener for finding this deal.
Product Features:
- Helium-filled hard drive
- 3.5-inch form factor
- HelioSeal process and 7StacTM design are keys to hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity
- TCOptimized design delivers on key elements of data center TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density
- SAS & SATA 6Gb/s models for configuration flexibility
Editor's Notes
Written by oceanlake- About this Deal:
- This price matches a recent Frontpage Deal.
- Priced at ~$7.86 per TB of storage space.
- About this Store:
- Refer to goHardDrive return policy (90 days)
- goHardDrive via Newegg has a 4.8 star rating based on over 8900 customer feedback.
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And your other drives that had the SMART data cleared now show they've been in use for a year, one year after you installed them?
You don't say...
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And your other drives that had the SMART data cleared now show they've been in use for a year, one year after you installed them?
You don't say...
Even then, I'd trust a single brand new high quality drive over two of these with RAID redundancy.
Not worth it.
Would you buy a 10 year old Corolla with 100k miles on it for approximately half price? Because plenty of people are buying them for well above half of original MSRP right now.
We have enterprise PCs at work that shipped with 3 year warranties. They will operate for 5-10 years on average before needing to be retired simply because they're no longer suitable for the tasks. Product lifespan isn't determined by warranty.
I hope with those failure rates you have been able to backup your data and not lose it.
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And to answer your question, this particular drive after 3 years of use has an AFR of only about 0.3%. After 5 years that will be higher, but not by much, maybe 2-3% worst case. A drive failure is usually not catastrophic in nature, but even assuming it was as long as you have some redundancy it's a matter of swapping in a new drive.
So let's run with that 3% figure, and assume I have 5 drives in a raid 6 setup with two parity drives, and just for giggles let's say the AFR goes up by 1% every year. So, each year I expect to have needed this many drives replaced (cumulative, not per year).
1 year: 0.15 drives
2 years: 0.35 drives
3 years: .6 drives
4 years: 0.9 drives
5 years: 1.25 drives
This is an absolute worse case scenario and it's even odds I don't see a drive failure until nearly 3 years out. And would you look at that, the drive's still under warranty and thanks to the raid setup no data was lost. After 5 years, you're looking at 1 drive out of 5 likely failing by that point, but you saved 50% on the cost of the drives up front so who even cares.
Seems like a fair trade over buying them new, where you'd still need at least one parity drive unless you enjoy gambling with your data.
It won't be unusual to see 3-5 years of continuous use hours on these but usually low power on cycles. Very reliable and solid hard drives.
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That is what I would do personally.
I feel like these should be much cheaper given they are used hard disks, and age/usage is exactly what matters with drives.
This is for someone who doesnt have the budget for new disks and needs a lot of storage for a NAS and is OK with the hassles and time sink that is replacing and rebuilding the array when one fails.
Since time is money, that is not me lol.
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As for cars lasting longer than their warranty, yes, they usually do. But for people looking to replace an engine (see Subaru and Toyota with oil consumption issues where there's no cheap part to replace) or transmission problems out of warranty (see basically any major transmission problem, doubly so for CVTs), fairly often that means time for a new car.
So I still greatly disagree. Warranties are only a marginal commentary on the useful life of the object.
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