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WD Elements Desktop External Hard Drives (Certified Refurb): 14TB $152, 16TB Expired

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Western Digital via eBay has Select WD Elements USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drives (Certified Refurbished) on sale + an Extra 20% off when you apply promo code PRESIDENT20 at checkout. Shipping is free.

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  • 14TB (WDBWLG0140HBK-NESN) $151.99
  • 16TB (WDBWLG0160HBK-NESN) $167.99

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Most refurbishment on these externals happens at the controller board for the enclosure, not the drive itself. There's a possibility these drives have never even been spun up for any significant amount of time because of this.

It could be something as minor as a power surge, broken connector, or firmware update that knocks out the enclosure and makes the drive inaccessible.

If you're shucking it, the enclosure is usually never used, so defects often go unnoticed.
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I bought two last month from WD on eBay. One broke within a week and the other one is noisy. I like WD but will stick to my "never buy a refurbed hd" rule
moving forward. I did get a 2 year warranty with each of them and I was able to return the broken one without hassle…
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What?

These are local storage drives, not cloud based.

What data do you think is being stolen?

Your tinfoil hat might be on too tight.
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geo2209
02-15-2024 at 10:38 AM.
02-15-2024 at 10:38 AM.
What does refurbished on a physical drive mean? Wonder if it's worth the hassle for a shucked NAS or just buy new instead.
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02-15-2024 at 10:44 AM.
02-15-2024 at 10:44 AM.
It's at least coming from WD, so I at least put some faith in it vs another seller.
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02-15-2024 at 10:48 AM.
02-15-2024 at 10:48 AM.
isn't buying a certified hard drive a very no no?
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02-15-2024 at 10:55 AM.
02-15-2024 at 10:55 AM.
are these external drives only used by home consumers, which implies light usage? Or is there a use case where a business buys a bunch of these for storage or backup or something where it might get a lot more usage?
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mrkazador
02-15-2024 at 10:59 AM.
02-15-2024 at 10:59 AM.
If you're planning to shuck the drive then maybe consider a recertified enterprise drive from server part deals for $160, 16tb HC550 2 year seller warranty.
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02-15-2024 at 11:18 AM.
02-15-2024 at 11:18 AM.
Quote from frugalbrutus :
are these external drives only used by home consumers, which implies light usage? Or is there a use case where a business buys a bunch of these for storage or backup or something where it might get a lot more usage?

I have used them in personal use and business (IT) use. I can't imagine there could be much difference, being an external usb drive. It's either backing up using the rules of back up routines, or used to move files around to different locations
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02-15-2024 at 11:28 AM.
02-15-2024 at 11:28 AM.
I bought two last month from WD on eBay. One broke within a week and the other one is noisy. I like WD but will stick to my "never buy a refurbed hd" rule
moving forward. I did get a 2 year warranty with each of them and I was able to return the broken one without hassle…
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02-15-2024 at 11:28 AM.
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I have had great success with WD shucked drives in my 10 year old Windows-based JBOD Media server. I have had drives with 6-8 years of 24/7 usage that have been retired with 0 errors and only been upgrade due to small size and needing more storage space but limited to power and sata connectors. I have had a couple of internal consumer drivers that started showing errors after a few years but still gave me enough warning before I had a catastrophic error and loss of data. I'm going to try 2 refurb 16tb drives in my new media server that I'm building now. I always run a full surface scan of the drives in the USB enclosure and then after shucking them I run another full surface scan in the computer case before I start loading them with data. Although the drives are used more for reading than writing; they do get regular load balancing and other data test and migration. My newest media server being built this weekend will be starting out with 2 new 18tb shucked WD drives and these 2 refurbed 16tb shucked drives. The old server will be retired and used as a backup for the newest media server.
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02-15-2024 at 11:52 AM.
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Quote from geo2209 :
What does refurbished on a physical drive mean? Wonder if it's worth the hassle for a shucked NAS or just buy new instead.
Be aware that you would be buying a drive meant for general use as an external , so it's probably a WD Green - meant for light use, less power consumption, less emphasis on performance. To me, that's a big difference between buying this to use in a NAS, versus buying a "refurbished" enterprise drive which was designed for use in a NAS or data center.
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02-15-2024 at 11:53 AM.
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Quote from IndigoBuffalo138 :
I bought two last month from WD on eBay. One broke within a week and the other one is noisy. I like WD but will stick to my "never buy a refurbed hd" rule
moving forward. I did get a 2 year warranty with each of them and I was able to return the broken one without hassle…

How do you know it's the refurbishment and not the shipping method?

I've had plenty of brand new drives come DoA from Amazon and other retailers.

No carrier is perfect, but UPS has the fewest package throwers from what I've witnessed.
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02-15-2024 at 12:01 PM.
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Quote from Ih8reb8s :
Be aware that you would be buying a drive meant for general use as an external , so it's probably a WD Green - meant for light use, less power consumption, less emphasis on performance. To me, that's a big difference between buying this to use in a NAS, versus buying a "refurbished" enterprise drive which was designed for use in a NAS or data center.
Oh no these are not WD greens. These come with mid grade server drives meant for high heat environments(so they can sit on your desk and bake, which saves money by not needing a fan). I think server grade starts at 8 tb and up.
For instance my 14tb ones were cmr helium WDC_WD140EDGZ, which are white label RED Plus's.
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Quote from geo2209 :
What does refurbished on a physical drive mean? Wonder if it's worth the hassle for a shucked NAS or just buy new instead.
Most refurbishment on these externals happens at the controller board for the enclosure, not the drive itself. There's a possibility these drives have never even been spun up for any significant amount of time because of this.

It could be something as minor as a power surge, broken connector, or firmware update that knocks out the enclosure and makes the drive inaccessible.

If you're shucking it, the enclosure is usually never used, so defects often go unnoticed.
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