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12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (Refurb)

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (ST12000NM0127, Excellent - Refurbished) for $81.99. Shipping is free.

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  • 0 Bad Sectors. Grade A Refurbished. Fully Tested & Pass Sector-by-sectors test & Factory Diagnose software (No stuck / freezes HDD, perfectly smooth & high performance)
  • 3 Years Warranty from Reseller, 1 Year warranty serviced by Allstate

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    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
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    • This price matches our recent popular front page deal that has earned 45 thumbs up.
    • These certified refurbished hard drives are priced at ~$6.83 per TB of storage space.
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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (ST12000NM0127, Excellent - Refurbished) for $81.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for sharing this deal.

Condition Notes:
  • 0 Bad Sectors. Grade A Refurbished. Fully Tested & Pass Sector-by-sectors test & Factory Diagnose software (No stuck / freezes HDD, perfectly smooth & high performance)
  • 3 Years Warranty from Reseller, 1 Year warranty serviced by Allstate

Editor's Notes

Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
    • goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has a 99.9% postive rating from over 100k feedback.
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
  • Additional Information:
    • This price matches our recent popular front page deal that has earned 45 thumbs up.
    • These certified refurbished hard drives are priced at ~$6.83 per TB of storage space.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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Ad0nis
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Just received mine. Tested with chkdsk and passed /f /r /x.
Always test these before you deploy them on servers.
Egat
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Yeah, you'll find how people who understand how to safely maintain data with backups are happy to ride out the (generally long) life left on these used enterprise drives for the significant discount.

Then you'll also find the people who have no understanding of how to protect data, or the bathtub curve of failure, getting thumbs down for their "warnings"
TheFranticGibbon
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Let the "Seagate Sucks vs Western Digital Sucks" wars begin. I've been using several of these recertified data center drives from both manufacturers for years without any problems whatsoever but remember on a long enough timeline every drive will eventually fail. Just remember if you're storing critical data on any drive it would behoove you to practice redundancy and back it up elsewhere as well.

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I am using a new Segate Back Up Plus Hub 10TB to back up my photos. It's main purpose is for storage of photos/videos. I am thinking since this is an enterpise HD, this would outlast the one that I have?

I've had to Seagate in the past, long time ago, and the computer can longer read the drives. They were rarely used.
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Quote from ScarletRiver3270 :
This has been posted many times before. Old drives that been riding hard. Search for it on here and read comments.
They're oldER, not "old".

You have to remember that server and enterprise grade hardware is leagues ahead of most consumer grade gear on top of being treated completely differently.

These might have tons of power on hours, but keeping a drive running 24/7 is more often less taxing than daily power cycles. And with these being rated for more power on hours than most consumer drives will ever see while also being decommissioned early, it evens out.

Should you be storing your only copy of family photos on these? Of course not. But that's true for every drive.

Most people who buy these are going to throw their Steam collection or movies on it and be just as well off as the guys starting with new drives.
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Quote from ScarletRiver3270 :
This has been posted many times before. Old drives that been riding hard. Search for it on here and read comments.
False. Refurbished drives go through more rigorous testing after renewal. Further, since drives follow a bathtub-shaped failure rate curve, you stand much less of a chance of failure than new drives do. Ask r/DataHoarder and they will corroborate what I just shared.
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Quote from seiromem :
I am using a new Segate Back Up Plus Hub 10TB to back up my photos. It's main purpose is for storage of photos/videos. I am thinking since this is an enterpise HD, this would outlast the one that I have?

I've had to Seagate in the past, long time ago, and the computer can longer read the drives. They were rarely used.
That 10TB drive shouldn't be your only backup of those photos.

The rule for data integrity is that a backup isn't a backup without a backup (which, yes, becomes an infinite N+1).

Get another drive that you regularly put in a good fire safe or at least put a backup in the cloud.
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Quote from Ad0nis :
Just received mine. Tested with chkdsk and passed /f /r /x.
Always test these before you deploy them on servers.
Honestly, you should do this with any drive, new or refurbished. Contrary to intuition and some popular rumors, new drives actually have a higher likelihood than refurbished ones to fail. This is because hard drives follow a bathtub-shaped failure rate over time of service.
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Quote from annonymous999 :
With power use and hard work cost in mind what is the easiest and cheapest solution power and Hardware wise to make a home yes that automatically backs up PC iPhone and Android?
Your cheapest and most robust solution is always going to be cloud based.

Second to that, get a Raspberry Pi and an external drive. Install RSync or similar on both the server and the devices and have it schedule to back up during certain hours or based on whenever you enter the geo location.
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I just received my 5 pack of these from last time they were on sale . 1 made horrible screeching and whining noise every time it would try to spin up . Other 4 no issues so far .
Already received RMA label for replacement, going out tomorrow.
I would buy more at this price if it would allow me.

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Quote from sonichedgehog360 :
Honestly, you should do this with any drive, new or refurbished. Contrary to intuition and some popular rumors, new drives actually have a higher likelihood than refurbished ones to fail. This is because hard drives follow a bathtub-shaped failure rate over time of service.
Not to mention, all of these drives go through hell when shipping.

A brand new drive can still have defects on account of how much it gets thrown around by these carriers.
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Quote from wherestheanykey :
They're oldER, not "old".

You have to remember that server and enterprise grade hardware is leagues ahead of most consumer grade gear on top of being treated completely differently.

These might have tons of power on hours, but keeping a drive running 24/7 is more often less taxing than daily power cycles. And with these being rated for more power on hours than most consumer drives will ever see while also being decommissioned early, it evens out.

Should you be storing your only copy of family photos on these? Of course not. But that's true for every drive.

Most people who buy these are going to throw their Steam collection or movies on it and be just as well off as the guys starting with new drives.
Yeah but these drives aren't just powered on and sitting there. The actuator arm was probably slinging around like crazy the whole time.
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Quote from wherestheanykey :
That 10TB drive shouldn't be your only backup of those photos.

The rule for data integrity is that a backup isn't a backup without a backup (which, yes, becomes an infinite N+1).

Get another drive that you regularly put in a good fire safe or at least put a backup in the cloud.
I do have a back up and was wondering if this enterprise one might outlast the one I have because it's an enterprise HD.
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Quote from Egat :
Sure, they're generally going to run a bit louder than consumer drives, but these are pulled from servers that were usually doing lots of IO operations
More than a bit louder in my experience. I'd say *significantly* louder is more accurate.
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Quote from Egat :
Yeah, you'll find how people who understand how to safely maintain data with backups are happy to ride out the (generally long) life left on these used enterprise drives for the significant discount.

Then you'll also find the people who have no understanding of how to protect data, or the bathtub curve of failure, getting thumbs down for their "warnings"
My favorites are the posts insinuating that you don't need to backup new drives because only used drives fail.
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Quote from Egat :
Yeah, you'll find how people who understand how to safely maintain data with backups are happy to ride out the (generally long) life left on these used enterprise drives for the significant discount.

Then you'll also find the people who have no understanding of how to protect data, or the bathtub curve of failure, getting thumbs down for their "warnings"
While I do generally accept your sentiment last deal I bought had 2 out of 3 drives be DOA. Forgot the name, but it was highly recommended here, and not thru eBay or Newegg it was direct from sellers site.

Either way, I returned all three. Bad luck, I suppose, but, people need to use/test these right away. Don't grab them unless you plan to use right away.
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Quote from dealmeister3000 :
Yeah but these drives aren't just powered on and sitting there. The actuator arm was probably slinging around like crazy the whole time.
I wouldn't say "slinging around", but even so, they're still rated for more mechanical runtime than your average consumer drive. Besides, mechanical failure in general is in some ways more common and at a higher pain point on consumer hardware than at enterprise scale, simply because of the difference in volume. You might see one bum drive in the time it takes enterprise servers to find dozens, but it might also take you much longer to reach that conclusion (see Seagate Barracudas mfg in the early 2010s).

These were probably used in a RAID for some database, where the files are mostly contiguous and cached.

Feel how you will, but I would definitely trust these far more coming out of a server than some home NAS or gaming PC.
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Quote from seiromem :
I do have a back up and was wondering if this enterprise one might outlast the one I have because it's an enterprise HD.
It probably would, depending on your use case and where you plan on installing it (these don't do well shoved in single drive enclosures).

But when you say backup, you aren't referring to just the 10TB, right?

A single backup drive is not enough to be considered a true backup.

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