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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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- goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has a 99.9% postive rating from over 100k feedback.
- 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
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- 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:
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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Always test these before you deploy them on servers.
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"
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I've had to Seagate in the past, long time ago, and the computer can longer read the drives. They were rarely used.
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.
I've had to Seagate in the past, long time ago, and the computer can longer read the drives. They were rarely used.
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.
Always test these before you deploy them on servers.
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.
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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A brand new drive can still have defects on account of how much it gets thrown around by these carriers.
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.
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.
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"
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"
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.
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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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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