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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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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

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  • 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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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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supersteals
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Recently purchased the 20TB and 16TB versions. All 10 disks passed all tests and had zero bad sectors. Currently testing in truenas server for a few days before putting to actual use.
Anyone know a good automated way to simulate real world usage for NAS on NFS?
I am currently testing by running VM and using the Truenas disk as the data store over nfs, but it's just writing files.
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I ordered 2 last week and they came today. Each drive was heavily wrapped in bubble wrap.
I'm still testing the first, but so far so good.

I don't think it's very noisy. I have a 4 bay case with a shucked WD and a 16TB Seagate Exos (new, from black friday deal), and an 18TB WD Ultrastar drive, and so far I think this one is the quietist of them all.

The manufacture dates on the drives were both 2019 (different months).

Debating if I want to order another.
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Quote from teknomedic :
When I went to eBay I got a popup from eBay offering $5 off a $60 or more purchase if I use the eBay app... Can't complain.. $77 (before tax) for a 12TB HDD.
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Quote from Tourist1292 :
So one should not buy used car from dealer or after rental? Whoever buying should know what they are paying for. Just like cars, the start and stop spinning of the drive do more harm to the drive. Retired enterprise drive from data center is like rental car with a lot of highway miles.
But the difference with buying a used car is : it is illegal to mess with the odometer. It's a good indicator of wear and tear on a vehicle.

With a wiped SMART register there is no record of wear and tear on a drive.
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NiTE
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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"
I'm going to quadruple my risk of failure by getting four of these putting them in a raid so I can get almost 1000 MB a second

I'm gonna make multiple copies I'll have two or three backups of every video I import and compress

Often the video file will become corrupt while working with it. I better have several backups.

I'll have at least two back ups in case some drives are off-line or connected to another machine or one becomes corrupt or I have a raid fail

If you're gonna have a 48 TB hard drive for only six dollars a terabyte

And the compressed file will be 15 GB that I can afford to make three copies of every movie and then two copies of every clip

I'll have massive storage and decent speed

I haven't run any any test on these drives when they arrive
should I be testing them?

Except for disc first aid when I first initialize it 30 second check I'm not doing a scan that will take days each
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Quote from NiTE :

I haven't run any any test on these drives when they arrive
should I be testing them?

Except for disc first aid when I first initialize it 30 second check I'm not doing a scan that will take days each
Disk-Filltest or Badblocks scans takes upwards of 30 hours per drive.
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Quote from NiTE :
I'm going to quadruple my risk of failure by getting four of these putting them in a raid so I can get almost 1000 MB a second

I'm gonna make multiple copies I'll have two or three backups of every video I import and compress

Often the video file will become corrupt while working with it. I better have several backups.

I'll have at least two back ups in case some drives are off-line or connected to another machine or one becomes corrupt or I have a raid fail

If you're gonna have a 48 TB hard drive for only six dollars a terabyte

And the compressed file will be 15 GB that I can afford to make three copies of every movie and then two copies of every clip

I'll have massive storage and decent speed

I haven't run any any test on these drives when they arrive
should I be testing them?

Except for disc first aid when I first initialize it 30 second check I'm not doing a scan that will take days each
When your mom asked you why you were laughing at yourself while you typed this, did you explain it to her? Or just ask for more meatloaf?
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seems like there aren't going to be deals on new hard drives for a while. I looked it up and apparently one of the main (and only) manufacturers of the films in hard drives has shut down for now. Not sure how current the info is but that seems to be why there's no deals on new hard drives now. I used to be in the camp of never buy a refurb hard drive but i think i'll pull the trigger on 2 of these bad bois
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Quote from RektbyBitmex :
seems like there aren't going to be deals on new hard drives for a while. I looked it up and apparently one of the main (and only) manufacturers of the films in hard drives has shut down for now. Not sure how current the info is but that seems to be why there's no deals on new hard drives now. I used to be in the camp of never buy a refurb hard drive but i think i'll pull the trigger on 2 of these bad bois
I was in the same boat, never a refurbished HDD. But after reading all the many users on reddit and other forums, I took the plunge with 2 x 22TB (Seagate from SPD) and paired it my new 2 x 22TB WD Red Pro from WD.com and the new server is running without any trouble. Since it only has my ripped collection, I have not setup any backup yet (except SnapRAID with 1 parity drive. As soon as OMV 7 is released, I will have 2 parity drive setup.
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Can I use it with an enclosure as an external storage?
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Would this fit in a ps4?
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I think I just bought the last 5
Almost gone… still available
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Can I use it with an enclosure as an external storage?
Yes...

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Would this fit in a ps4?
Inside of it? Nope.

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