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10TB HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC510 3.5" SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive (Refurb)

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$80

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goHardDrive via Newegg has 10TB HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC510 3.5" SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive (Refurbished, HUH721010ALE601) on sale for $79.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member sr71 for sharing this deal.

Specs:
  • SATA 6.0Gb/s
  • 7200RPM
  • 256MB Cache
  • 3.5" Form Factor

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goHardDrive via Newegg has 10TB HGST WD Ultrastar DC HC510 3.5" SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive (Refurbished, HUH721010ALE601) on sale for $79.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member sr71 for sharing this deal.

Specs:
  • SATA 6.0Gb/s
  • 7200RPM
  • 256MB Cache
  • 3.5" Form Factor

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  • About this Deal:
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  • Return Policy

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lastwraith
Not bad, but I'd probably do the 12TB for $89.99 from goharddrive instead.
https://www.newegg.com/p/1Z4-001J-00E07
Thinkie
I see there's a 90-day warranty from them via NewEgg. Whereas if you buy via ebay from them, there's a 5-year warranty for a few bucks more.
rbstern
For those who are interested: BackBlaze (excellent remote backup company) publishes regular statistical reports on the reliability of drives they have in service. Because they often have thousands of a given hard drive model in service, often for years, it's probably the most realistic set of data on HDD brand/model reliability available anywhere.

Western Digital's failure rates are astoundingly low.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...-for-2023/

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Not bad, but I'd probably do the 12TB for $89.99 from goharddrive instead.
https://www.newegg.com/p/1Z4-001J-00E07
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Quote from Indus_FL :
I don't get why anyone would buy a refurb drive - especially a physical platter drive. It also seems there are 2-3 refurb drive postings a day.
Because many of us have drives in arrays for media, VM, etc storage targets. Buying used enterprise is a great way to get a deal on a largely reliable drive. And if a drive dies, we have parity and/or backups to rebuild a dead drive, because that's normal planning for any responsible person who cares about their data.
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Quote from Indus_FL :
I don't get why anyone would buy a refurb drive - especially a physical platter drive. It also seems there are 2-3 refurb drive postings a day.
Something to keep in mind is that these are enterprise grade HDDs. These are expensive new but has higher specs when compared to consumer-grade HDDs.
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Quote from Indus_FL :
I don't get why anyone would buy a refurb drive - especially a physical platter drive. It also seems there are 2-3 refurb drive postings a day.
Odds are probably much higher that one of these drives will die over a new drive. But the odds of losing your data is much lower if you buy 2 of these drives instead of one new one.

The recommended minimum for backing up data you care about is what's referred to as a 3-2-1 backup. The "3" in there refers to having your data on 3 separate drives/arrays.

If you'd like to reduce downtime and avoid losing new data before it is backed up, then you also want to include some type of RAID. This is highly unnecessary for most home users. But it is something enthusiasts like to use as well.

After all of this, you might end up with 4+ drives to hold your data and back it up.
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I have an old TrueNAS server full of 4TB WD Red drives. Wouldn't mind upgrading.

Does anyone have any experience with the 10TB or the 12TB linked above? Any issues with them? Did you have any fail?
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Quote from Indus_FL :
I don't get why anyone would buy a refurb drive - especially a physical platter drive. It also seems there are 2-3 refurb drive postings a day.
Drive failure is a guarantee, so the industry accepted standard is to build systems that are fault tolerant (RAID).

For the average homelabber, drive reliability is 3rd or 4th most important factor to protecting data. The average drive is so reliable that a reduction of X use hours in exchange for Y dollars is a good tradeoff since fault tolerance mostly negates data loss from drive failure.

If you are buying just 1... don't do that with these large drives unless it's just a scratch drive

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I see there's a 90-day warranty from them via NewEgg. Whereas if you buy via ebay from them, there's a 5-year warranty for a few bucks more.
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Quote from Indus_FL :
I don't get why anyone would buy a refurb drive - especially a physical platter drive. It also seems there are 2-3 refurb drive postings a day.
Let's discuss it for 10 more pages like we do in every other refurb HD thread Smilie
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Quote from Indus_FL :
I don't get why anyone would buy a refurb drive - especially a physical platter drive. It also seems there are 2-3 refurb drive postings a day.
I've been running eight 12TB refurbs from serverpartdeals on my TrueNAS system for 3 straight years and have monitoring tools on the drive and they're still healthy. Much more economical to buy refurbs in my opinion.
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